MOIST
What does "MOIST" mean?
Slightly wet; damp with a small amount of liquid.
Meanings
- Having a small amount of moisture; damp but not soaked. Keep the soil moist but never waterlogged for the seedlings to thrive.
- Of a cake or food, tender and not dry. The secret to a moist sponge is not overbaking it.
Did you know?
- 'Moist' is a star of psycholinguistic research: in studies of 'word aversion' (the disgust some people feel at a word's mere sound), it ranks among the most reliably loathed words in English.
Word origin
From Old French 'moiste', 'damp, wet', probably from a blend of Latin 'mucidus' ('moldy, slimy') and 'musteus' ('fresh, like new wine').
Remember it
MOIST has 'OI' in the middle - the small 'oi!' of surprise you make when something is damper than expected.
A little poem
Morning on the grass -
a word half the room dislikes
naming simple dew.
haiku
Wordplay
- I told the baker her cake was moist. She said, "Please - we say 'tender' here; some words just don't sit right."
What it teaches
A thing and our feeling about its name are two different facts; the dew does not care that the word offends.
Quick facts
What does MOIST mean?
Slightly wet; damp with a small amount of liquid.
Is MOIST a valid word?
Yes — MOIST is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is MOIST?
MOIST has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does MOIST come from?
From Old French 'moiste', 'damp, wet', probably from a blend of Latin 'mucidus' ('moldy, slimy') and 'musteus' ('fresh, like new wine').
What can MOIST teach us?
A thing and our feeling about its name are two different facts; the dew does not care that the word offends.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.