wet wipe

English

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Noun

wet wipe (plural wet wipes)

1. A small moistened piece of paper or cloth for cleaning or personal hygiene, often folded and individually wrapped for convenience.

   Synonyms: handi-wipe, moist towelette, wetnap

   • 2015, Andrew O'Hagan, The Illuminations, →ISBN, page 48:

     He opened it and took out a flattened bag of wet wipes and a packet of sherbet.

2. (slang, derogatory) An annoying or contemptible person.

   Synonyms: asswipe; see also Thesaurus:jerk

   • 2023, Kesia Lupo, Let’s Play Murder, London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, →ISBN, page 23:

     ‘Do you have to be such a wet wipe?’ Then she snorted. ‘Whatever. Who cares? Let’s be real – we don’t know each other, and we’re not going to get to know each other. I have literally no interest in you. We’re both playing for ourselves. […]’

   • 2023 June 30, Marina Hyde, “The tide is coming in fast on Rishi Sunak – and it’s full of sewage”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Thames Water has become the latest object lesson in the predictable and predicted folly of privatised monopolies, aided by a regulator that’s an even bigger wet wipe than the fatbergs bunging up the sewers.

Translations

moistened piece of paper or cloth

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 濕紙巾 / 湿纸巾 (sap¹ zi² gan¹)

  Mandarin: 濕巾 / 湿巾 (zh) (shījīn), 濕紙巾 / 湿纸巾 (zh) (shīzhǐjīn)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kosteuspyyhe (fi)
• French: lingette humide f
• German: feuchtes Tuch n, Feuchttuch n, Feuchtpapier n
• Japanese: ウェットティッシュ (wetto tisshu), ウェットワイプ (wetto waipu)
• Korean: 물티슈 (multisyu), 물휴지 (mulhyuji)
• Polish: mokra chusteczka f, chusteczka nawilżająca f
• Portuguese: toalhete m
• Russian: вла́жная салфе́тка f (vlážnaja salfétka)
• Serbo-Croatian: vlažna màramica f
• Spanish: toallita [húmeda] f, wipe (es) m (Americanism), chubs m (Americanism), paño / pañito húmedo m, baby wipe f (beibi waip, Americanism)
• Swedish: våtservett (sv) c
• Turkish: ıslak mendil (tr)
• Vietnamese: giấy ướt