drinkwater

1. uncountablePotable water; water intended for drinking

   “I'll come back and bring you some drinkwater," he said.

   1916, McClure's Magazine, volume 47

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   In very dry seasons some drinkwater is brought from wells dug in the bed of the river, about half-an hour from the village.

   1905, Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). Colonial Secretary's Dept. Local Government and Health Branch, Reports

   Synonyms: drinking water

1. not comparableSmall, rural, and insignificant.

   I'm surprised they have that kind of thing in a drinkwater place like this.

   2014, Richard Hoyt, Decoys: A John Denson Mystery, →ISBN, page 50

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   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.

   1972, Barry Brissman, Swing low, page 60

   “[...] Heard she killed two of them Jenson brothers in some drinkwater town in Kansas?”

   2016, Michael Kahmann, A Contract For Ethan

   Synonyms: backwater, podunk, jerkwater

plural Drinkwaters

1. A surname transferred from the nickname.