"soaking" definition, meaning, and origin

Adjective

Extremely wet; saturated.
- I shuddered as I stood and looked round me: it was an inclement day for outdoor exercise; not positively rainy, but darkened by a drizzling yellow fog; all under foot was still soaking wet with the floods of yesterday....
Of rain, heavy but slow enough to penetrate deeply into the top soil.

Inherited from Middle English soukynge. By surface analysis, soak + -ing. First attested in c. 1440 in the Promptorium parvulorum.

Immersion in water; a drenching or dunking.
- "We came on a wild-goose chase", grumbled one, as he stirred the fire. "Got nothing but a soaking for our pains". - 1906, Horatio Alger, chapter 2, in Joe the Hotel Boy, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2014:
The practice of inserting a penis into a vagina and remaining stationary, without thrusting, supposedly used by some conservative Christians in lieu of traditional sexual intercourse.
- That's probably why everyone is already having anal sex in ninth grade. I mean, let's face it, even the Mormons are soaking. - 2017, Carrie Keagan, Dibs Baer, Everybody Curses, I Swear!: Uncensored Tales from the...
- Mormonism is a culture very much predicated on puritanical commitments[…]the Amazon series Alpha House[…]made much of Mormon soaking, an alternative sex practice engaged in by two LDS characters on the show. Soaking...
- This all-or-nothing attitude implies that penetration equal sex. (Although throngs of folks raised in abstinence-based religions might [take this view]. My favorite is the Mormon concept of "soaking," which means a man...