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Drinkwater

name

Etymology

From Middle English drinkwater (attested as a nickname), equivalent to drink + water. Compare Saterland Frisian Drinkwoater (“drinkwater”), West Frisian drinkwetter (“drinkwater”), Dutch drinkwater (“drinkwater”), German Low German Drinkwater (“drinkwater”), German Trinkwasser (“drinkwater”).

  1. inherited from drinkwater

Definitions

  1. A surname transferred from the nickname.

  2. Potable water

    Potable water; water intended for drinking

    • In very dry seasons some drinkwater is brought from wells dug in the bed of the river, about half-an hour from the village.
    • “I'll come back and bring you some drinkwater," he said.

  3. Small, rural, and insignificant.

    • And for a moment it seemed that everything would be all right, that we were traveling back in time to that idyllic farm near a drinkwater town in Iowa, back to my boyhood, and that Mina would always smile up at me from her bed.
    • I'm surprised they have that kind of thing in a drinkwater place like this.
    • “[...] Heard she killed two of them Jenson brothers in some drinkwater town in Kansas?”

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