bromo-seltzer

English

Alternative forms

• bromo seltzer

Etymology

From bromo- +‎ seltzer.

Noun

bromo-seltzer (plural bromo-seltzers)

1. A type of proprietary effervescent sedative containing a mixture of bromides.

   Synonym: bromo

   • a. 1911, David Graham Phillips, Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise‎^[1]:

     "Wait a minute." Ida, with bedroom slippers clattering, hurried back to her room, returned with a bottle of bromo seltzer and in the bathroom fixed Susan a dose. "You'll feel all right in half an hour or so. Gee, but you're swell—with your own bathroom."

   • 1920 April, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, book II (The Education of a Personage), page 214:

     He heard Carling addressing a remark to the bartender: “Give him a bromo-seltzer.” Amory shook his head indignantly. “None that stuff!”