Word.ws English Dictionary

branch water

branch water noun: plain water, especially when mixed with alcoholic beverage.

Noun

branch water (uncountable)

  1. Plain water, especially when mixed with alcoholic beverage.
    • Pour me some bourbon and branch water.
    • To make their beverage even more attractive, the Americans mixed their alcohol not only with the usual branch water, but also with black chewing tobacco, red peppers, Jamaica ginger, black molasses, and other strong substances.1958, The Blackfeet; Raiders on the Northwestern Plains, by John Canfield Ewers, page 258

Forms of branch water

alternative formbranch-water

Origin of branch water

First recorded in 1835; branch (“creek”) + water, a stream of clean drinkable water.

Questions about branch water

What does branch water mean?
Branch water means plain water, especially when mixed with alcoholic beverage.
What part of speech is branch water?
Branch water is a noun.

Words near branch water in the dictionary

  1. branch registers
  2. branch stacking
  3. Branch Sunday
  4. branch tee
  5. branch tees
  6. branch water
  7. branch-decomposition
  8. branch-decompositions
  9. branch-water
  10. branchage
  11. branchaloris

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: branch water (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “branch water.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/branch_water. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.