Definitions for whets

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whets whet

Spelling: [hwet, wet]

IPA: /ʰwɛt, wɛt/

Whets is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 55 anagrams from letters in whets (ehstw).

Definitions for whets

noun

1. the act of whetting.
2. something that whets; appetizer or drink.
3. Chiefly Southern U.S. a spell of work. a while:

verb (used with object)

1. to sharpen (a knife, tool, etc.) by grinding or friction.
2. to make keen or eager; stimulate:

Origin of whets

before 900; Middle English whetten (v.), Old English hwettan (derivative of hwæt bold); cognate with German wetzen, Old Norse hvetja, Gothic gahwatjan to incite

Examples for whets

Appetise′ment; Appetis′er, something which whets the appetite.

But history only whets our curiosity, for ancient writers are neglectful or tantalisingly bald in their allusions to Antinous.

And on the camping trip they do ten times the physical labor and do it month after month in air that whets the appetite.

We take a pipe of consolation, but it only whets our appetites.

It whets the assassin's dagger, and pours poison into the cup of the suicide.

My frog brochure meets that difficulty and whets the appetite of the most mediocre.

She takes her breasts out of her sark and whets the sword on them.

But hunger torments and whets his appetite, so that the bread tasted to him like sauce.

The hourly sight of it whets the appetite, and sharpens it to avarice.

Their very cunning is what whets our appetites, and I absolutely burned to embrace the dauntless leader of the gang.