waaater

English

Noun

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?