waaater

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Noun[edit]

waaater (uncountable)

  1. Elongated form of water.
    • 1932, Lionel Britton, Spacetime Inn, page 80:
      H.-MAIDEN. I don't understand! Your beds were slept in.
      BILL. An oo slep in em?—Damn cold it was, too...
      H.-MAIDEN. But you had a water-bottle.
      BILL (can hardly believe himself ). Waaater... bottle?
    • 1979, Lucy R. Lippard, I See/You Mean: A Novel, page 122:
      I want to fill up this can with water.
      No. There's a water shortage. Go down to the beach and fill it up.
      Noooo. I want to fill it from the faucet. Here.
      You can't. I just told you why. Now run along.
      I want to fill it up with waaater.
    • 1987, Karen Sommer, Satch and the Motormouth, page 100:
      My lips were cracked, my throat parched. Desperately, I cried, "Waaater."
    • 1990, Mollie Ashton, Terms of Surrender, page 147:
      She slumped backward against her chair, her head lolling sideways. “I see waaater,” she said in the high-pitched tones of a young girl. “Oceans of waaater.”
    • 2004, Juliet S. Kono, Hoʻolulu Park and the Pepsodent Smile and Other Stories, page 96:
      Maybe the waaater from my side, when go inside your spriiing, eh?