wet

Now the sun, with more effectual beams, / Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wet / From drooping plant.

Don't go out in the wet.

They'll be in the camp […] before the Wet's out, mark my words.

‘A pity,’ said Jim, ‘I thought we was going to have a free wet.’

The drys were as unhappy with the second part of the speech as the wets were with the first half.

Wets, designed to channel water away from underneath the tyres, maximise grip and minimise the chance of aquaplaning.

Above all, he [Nigel Molesworth] is his own man, resolutely committed to a view of life that divides his fellow pupils into 'sissies', 'wets', 'swots' and 'old lags'.