beanwater
Informal slang for coffee, playing on the fact that coffee is brewed from roasted coffee beans — making it, technically, bean water.
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Informal slang for coffee, playing on the fact that coffee is brewed from roasted coffee beans — making it, technically, bean water. The term is used affectionately and humorously by coffee drinkers and detractors alike; the slightly reductive label can be self-deprecating ('I need my beanwater') or mock-dismissive ('just beanwater'). A secondary, older sense refers to actual water in which beans have been cooked, and a regional New England US sense meant high spirits or energy (possibly via the stimulant association). The coffee sense is the most current.
Don't talk to me before I've had at least one cup of beanwater.
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Has three distinct senses: the most common slang use is coffee, treating the drink as simply water filtered through beans. A literal sense covers the water left after boiling beans. A New England slang sense refers to high spirits or energy. The coffee sense is the most recognizable and widely used today, often in affectionate self-deprecating humor among coffee drinkers.
She couldn't function before her first cup of beanwater and everyone in the office knew not to talk to her until then.
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Water in which beans have been cooked.
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(slang) Coffee.
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(US, slang, mostly, New England) High spirits.
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