wet wipe
noun1
A small moistened piece of paper or cloth for cleaning or personal hygiene, often folded and individually wrapped for convenience.
- He opened it and took out a flattened bag of wet wipes and a packet of sherbet.2015, Andrew O'Hagan, The Illuminations, →ISBN, page 48:
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Derogatory, Slang An annoying or contemptible person.
- ‘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, Kesia Lupo, Let’s Play Murder, London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, →ISBN, page 23:
- 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.2023 June 30, Marina Hyde, “The tide is coming in fast on Rishi Sunak – and it’s full of sewage”, in The Guardian: