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drinkstuff

noun

Etymology

From drink + stuff.

  1. derived from *stoppōn✻ — “to clog up, block, fill”
  2. derived from stoffōn
  3. derived from estofe
  4. derived from stuffa
  5. inherited from stuf
  6. compounded as drinkstuff — “drink + stuff”

Definitions

  1. A material that may be used as drink.

    • Rumor has it that the price of beer is preparing to join the aviation corps of the foodstuffs and drinkstuffs with a raise of $2 a barrel, to be effective about May 1.
    • The waste of food in drinkstuffs doubtless is the strongest possible argument for war time prohibition.
    • It is rather a relief to find that war, the high price of foodstuffs, including drinkstuffs, an increased income tax, and all the rest of our daily bothers have not quite quenched the brave old English sense of humor.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for drinkstuff. 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