<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to sharpen (a knife, tool, etc.) by grinding or friction.</li><li>to make keen or eager; stimulate: to whet the appetite; to whet the curiosity.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the act of whetting.</li><li>something that whets; appetizer or drink.</li><li>Chiefly Southern U.S. a spell of work.</li><li>a while: to talk a whet.</li></ul>