water brash
Origin of water brash
1First recorded in 1795–1805
Words Nearby water brash
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How to use water brash in a sentence
This disease is more frequently called water brash and sometimes heart burn.
Water-brash (Munster), severe acidity of the stomach with a flow of watery saliva from the mouth.
English As We Speak It in Ireland | P. W. JoyceIf much sugar or salt is used my stomach gets very sour, and water-brash is the result.
Exceptionally, it may be insipid or brackish, constituting what is known as pyrosis, or water-brash.
British Dictionary definitions for water brash
water brash
noun
pathol another term for heartburn
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