The phrase "a whet" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in the context of stimulating interest or appetite, often in relation to food or curiosity.
Example: "The chef's description of the dish was a whet for my appetite, making me eager to try it."
Alternatives: "a teaser" or "an appetizer".
I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife …" It was something set in motion by that poem, more than any other, which led him to follow his mother, to study English literature, and to teach.
By the early 2000s, OLU had expanded into two events, a "whetting your palate" sex-free party called a Take-Out where couples could mingle, and the full-on soirees, which Palagia branded as Eat-Ins.
They tend to push up burrs along the blade which clog a whet-stone.
Mr. Streeter also displayed a red-tailed hawk, a great horned owl and a saw-whet owl, but it was when he lifted Benson, a bald eagle, from his cage, that the audience let out a gasp of admiration.
Acquaintance with its inhabitants aroused Peter's interest in the life of other nations, and an English sailboat, found derelict in a shed, whetted his passion for seafaring.
You can't whet a tongue or temper a steel core effectively on just one or two children.
When it gets as hot as it's been this week, there are few things that will whet a flagging appetite like a sip of cold soup.
These reminders of the mysterious and often forgotten coexistence of the natural and urban worlds in New York City offered an appetite-whetting prologue to a play about the animal in humanity.
My temporary name tag betrayed my greenhorn status, so it took only a moment's hesitation as I eyed some endive to whet a customer's appetite for dispute.
The wine, fairly simple, bone dry and citric, is a palate-whetting aperitif.
In the physical world, a mishmash whets my competitive shopping appetite.
