bromo-seltzer

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English

[edit]

Alternative forms

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From bromo- +‎ seltzer.

Noun

[edit]

bromo-seltzer (plural bromo-seltzers)

  1. A type of proprietary effervescent sedative containing a mixture of bromides.
    Synonym: bromo
    • a. 1911, David Graham Phillips, Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise[1]:
      "Wait a minute." Ida, with bedroom slippers clattering, hurried back to her room, returned with a bottle of bromo seltzer and in the bathroom fixed Susan a dose. "You'll feel all right in half an hour or so. Gee, but you're swell—with your own bathroom."
    • 1920 April, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, book II (The Education of a Personage), page 214:
      He heard Carling addressing a remark to the bartender: “Give him a bromo-seltzer.” Amory shook his head indignantly. “None that stuff!”