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water brash

American  

noun

Pathology.

  1. heartburn.

water brash British  

noun

  1. pathol another term for heartburn

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Etymology

Origin of water brash

First recorded in 1795–1805

Example Sentences

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There is a disease that afflicts many frontier people, called by some "sick stomach," by others, "water brash," from its symptoms of sudden nausea, with vomiting, especially after meals.

From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by Peck, John Mason

The result is a coarse, pasty mass of almost raw oatmeal, an extremely indigestible compound, the use of which causes water brash.

From Science in the Kitchen. by Kellogg, Mrs. E. E.

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