wet one's pants
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.99 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "If you keep on refusing to excuse anyone for a bathroom break, you're going to force someone to wet their pants. Don't go overboard with it."
- "Pretty much the whole night at the comedy club was hilarious, but that encore by Taylor Tomlinson had me wetting my pants."
- "He just about wet his pants when he found out how many accounts receivable were still outstanding."
Etymology
The senses referring to laughing and being afraid are extensions from the literal (urination) sense; both involve an element of variably literal or figurative nature: they are generally figurative, but if one laughs hard enough or gets frightened badly enough, the wetting may sometimes happen literally.