/fuyeur"waw'teuhr, -wot'euhr/ , n.
alcoholic drink; liquor.
[ 1820-30; FIRE + WATER; prob. a trans. of an expression in an Algonquian language, as Ojibwa iškote·wa·po· whiskey (earlier, other distilled liquors), equiv. to iškote·w-, comb. form of iškote· fire + -a·po· liquid ]