waterstuff

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈwɔtəɹstəf/, /ˈwɔtəɹ stəf/ (Standard Southern British) IPA(key): [ˈwoːtʰəstəf], [ˈwoːtʰə stəf] === Etymology 1 === Compound of water +‎ stuff. ==== Noun ==== waterstuff (uncountable) Things containing, associated with, or involving water. 2006, Belle de Jour: Diary of an Unlikely Call Girl: [...] title and another mag with a tasty bob-haired girl doing the waterstuff all over some poor boy who no doubt deserves it. Will let you know if anything interesting, er, goes down. ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From water +‎ stuff. Calque of Dutch waterstof (“hydrogen”) or German Wasserstoff (“hydrogen”). ==== Noun ==== waterstuff (uncountable) (puristic, otherwise nonstandard, rare) Hydrogen. 1887, Jas. Swinburne, “Theory of Secondary Cells” (letter to the editor), The Electrical Journal, Volume 18, p. 482: This is approximately the heat of exploding what the Germans call bang-gas (mixture of sourstuff and waterstuff), the result being liquid. 1989, James Binney, “Stellar Dynamics”, in Immo Appenzeller, Harm Jan Habing, Pierre Léna (eds.), Evolution of galaxies: astronomical observations: One day Gröninger, a brilliant young Homoeoid physicist then just at the end of his first year as a graduate student, became convinced that the frequencies of lines in the spectrum of waterstuff are differences between the frequencies [...]