Firewater

  

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Firewater

Definition: Firewater

Firewater

Noun

1. (informal) any strong spirits (such as strong whisky or rum).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Modern Usage: Firewater

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Frenzy of Firewater (1912)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Firewater

DomainTitle

Books

  • Firewater Myths: North American Indian Drinking and Alcohol Addiction (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Firewater

"Firewater" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Firewater" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%5157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Firewater

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  firewater

91

  firewater park water

11

  firewater providence

7

  firewater park

4

  firewater flit

4

  burn firewater

4

  fiesta firewater

3

  firewater providence ri

3

  firewater lyrics

2

  amarillo firewater park water

2

  alcohol firewater

2

  amarillo firewater

2

  firewater tightrope

2

  chief firewater wings

2
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Modern Translations: Firewater

Language Translations for "firewater"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

спиртни напитки (alcohol). (various references)

   

German

  

Branntwein (brandy, spirit, spirits). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tüzes víz, pálinka (bingo, brandy, hard drink, hootch, schnapps, schnaps, snifter, strong water, water of life). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

irewaterfay

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

viski (whiskey). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

sprit (alcohol, booze, hooch, liquor, lush, schnapps, spirit, spirits), eldvatten. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sert ve kalitesiz içki, ateşsuyu. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Firewater

Derivations

Words beginning with "firewater": firewaters. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Firewater" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Farwater, Freewater, Frialator. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Firewater

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-i-r-r-t-w"

-1 letter: waterier.

-2 letters: ferrate, ferrite, rewrite, tearier, wartier, waterer, wearier.

-3 letters: aerier, afreet, artier, faerie, fairer, fearer, feater, feriae, ferret, frater, irater, rafter, refire, retear, retire, rewire, tearer, terrae, wafter, waiter, warier, wearer, writer.

-4 letters: aerie, afire, afrit, after, airer, arete, eater, farer, feria, fewer, firer, freer, frere, friar, frier, irate, rater, rawer, refer, refit.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-f-i-r-r-t-w"
 

+1 letter: firewaters.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Firewater


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 69 72 65 77 61 74 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-.    ..    .-.    .    .--.    .-    -    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01101001 01110010 01100101 01110111 01100001 01110100 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#105 &#114 &#101 &#119 &#97 &#116 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0069 0072 0065 0077 0061 0074 0065 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

407584718967867184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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