# wet dream
## English
### Alternative forms

* wetdream (nonstandard, rare)

### Pronunciation

* Audio (General Australian):(file)

### Noun

wet dream (plural wet dreams)
* An erotic dream bringing the sleeper to orgasm.
** 1985, David Lewis, "British playwright makes a mountain out of a Mole" (review of The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend), The Globe and Mail (Toronto), 9 Jan., page E22:
    His mother is having an affair with the man next door, is reading Germain Greer's The Female Eunuch—which spawns Adrian's first wet dream.
* (idiomatic) The orgasm in such a dream.
* (idiomatic, by extension) An exciting fantasy; a very appealing, ideal thing, person, or state of affairs.
** 1986 October 24, Liam Lacey, “Same old irresistible Seeger”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, page D11:Bruce Springsteen may become middle America's wet dream.
** 2007, Addy Dugdale, "Betavoltaic Battery Could Power Your Laptop for Thirty Years," gizmodo.com, 2 Oct:
    The plan is, if all goes well, to have these batteries, an eco warrior's wet dream due to their non-toxicity, on sale in two or three years.

#### Synonyms

* (ejaculation): night emission, nocturnal emission

#### Translations
### Verb

wet dream (third-person singular simple present wet dreams, present participle wet dreaming, simple past and past participle wet dreamed or wet dreamt)
* (intransitive) To produce fluids from the sex organs as a result of sexual arousal during sleep; to have an erotic dream; (figurative) to fantasize (about something, especially in a sexual way).
** 1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 99:He is a boy sleeping against the mosque wall, ejaculates wet dreaming into a thousand cunts pink and smooth as sea shells, […]
** 1978, Larry Kramer, Faggots, New York: Warner Books, published 1979, page 85:[…] he’d been wet dreaming for several months about such an opportunity as was obviously creeping up on both of them,
** 1997, Nik Cohn, Need‎, New York: Knopf, page 137:That was the only sex she had ever wet-dreamed about.
** 2005, Tyehimba Jess, Leadbelly, Amherst, MA: Verse Press, p. 33,
    you is more a man than they ever wet dreamed to be
* (transitive) To have an erotic dream about (someone or something); (figurative) to fantasize about (someone or something) sexually.
** 1967, Angus Wilson, No Laughing Matter‎, New York: Viking, Book 4, p. 136:[…] the Bakst drawings imposed themselves on the shadowy sultans, sultanas, eunuchs, and pages […] the pageboy of the Fairy Cherry in panniered skirt and cherry-tree headdress―the very same he had dreamed, wet dreamed no doubt as well, pressed down, hemmed in by his wooden box.
** 2010, Paul Burman, The Grease Monkey’s Tale‎, London: PaperBooks, Part 1, Chapter 12, p. 71:[…] she left so few traces of having ever existed at all that he began to wonder whether he hadn’t just wet-dreamt her into being.
** 2013, Rachel Kushner, chapter 11, in The Flamethrowers, New York: Scribner, page 163:A rebel is a gleaming individual in tight Levi’s, a sneering and pretty face. The kind Sal Mineo wet-dreams.

### References

* “wet dream”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
* "wet dream" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002)