The meanings of 'wet'

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Of course, one has to be suspicious of the word 'meaning' in plural ("meanings"). In German, 'meinung' does not pluralise (with -s).

Anyway, in World Wide Words, today, M. Quinion refers to 'pea-wet':

"a very local term known only around
Wigan in Lancashire."

"The British national dish of fish and chips is
often accompanied in northern England by a
serving of mushy peas, a
kind of thick green pea soup made from dried marrowfat peas."

"Now, the water that's strained

off mushy peas is 'pea-wet,' the
poor man's version;

it's poured over a serving of chips as a gravy.
It was at one time given away to poor children, as
part of PEA-WET AND SCRAPS, the scraps being
fragments of batter from the fish fryer."

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