firewater

firewater
firewater (n.) "alcoholic liquor," 1826, American English, supposedly from American Indians, from FIRE (Cf. fire) (n.) + WATER (Cf. water) (n.).

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  • firewater — noun Date: 1817 strong alcoholic liquor …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • firewater — /fuyeur waw teuhr, wot euhr/, n. alcoholic drink; liquor. [1820 30; FIRE + WATER; prob. a trans. of an expression in an Algonquian language, as Ojibwa iškote·wa·po· whiskey (earlier, other distilled liquors), equiv. to iškote·w , comb. form of… …   Universalium

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