Noun: spraakwater
Gender: Neuter
Hyphenation:
uncountable
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like spraakwater
weerwraak,
spraakwater,
lekentaal,
sneeuw,
saflet,
schuim,
schijt,
witte fosfor,
flauwekul,
besturing,
skitta,
selderij,
atomisme,
walvisvaart,
dag des Heren,
addergebroed,
ontfriezing,
kosmopolitisme,
schapenvlees,
februari, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From spraak (“speech”) + water (“water”), referring to the tendency of alcohol to render drinkers talkative. Attested since the seventeenth century.
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