firewater
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Noun — High-proof alcoholic beverage, especially whiskey (especially in the context of its sale to or consumption by Native Americans).
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Etymology
A calque of a Native American language term, probably Ojibwe ishkodewaaboo (“alcohol”), from ishkodew- (“fire”) + -aaboo (“liquid”, glossed in older works as “water”). A number of other Algonquian, Siouan and Athabaskan languages also refer to whiskey with compounds that mean "fire-water" (on which basis noted Algonqui...
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