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branch water

noun

Etymology

First recorded in 1835; branch (“creek”) + water, a stream of clean drinkable water.

  1. inherited from *wódr̥✻ — “water”
  2. inherited from *watōr✻ — “water”
  3. inherited from *watar✻
  4. inherited from wæter — “water”
  5. inherited from water
  6. formed as branch water — “branch + water”

Definitions

  1. Plain water, especially when mixed with alcoholic beverage.

    • Pour me some bourbon and branch water.
    • To make their beverage even more attractive, the Americans mixed their alcohol not only with the usual branch water, but also with black chewing tobacco, red peppers, Jamaica ginger, black molasses, and other strong substances.
    • I play no favorites as between coffee and tea-—I am a Bourbon and branch-water man myself—but I suggest that in History's long view the Greensboro Coffee Party may loom as large as the Boston Tea Party.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for branch water. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA