subs. (common).—Water: also AQUA-POMPAGINIS (GROSE: ‘Dog-Latin’). Hence, in jocose combination, AQUAPOTE, AQUABIB (BAILEY, 1731), and AQUATIC = a water-drinker; AQUA-BOB = an icicle.
d. 1704. T. BROWN, Works, ii. 186. But all won’t cool his leachery, tho’ he be turn’d a perfect AQUAPOTE.
c. 1790. FRANKLIN, Autobiography. The ‘American AQUATIC,’ as they used to call me, was stronger than those who drank porter.
1839. W. H. AINSWORTH, Jack Sheppard [1889], 15. We’ll lather him with mud, shave him with a rusty razor, and drench him with AQUA POMPAGINIS.
1883. Bazaar, cited in Pall Mall Gazette, 5 Feb., 11/2. [‘Water-drinker’] might be known henceforth as an ‘AQUABIBIST,’ or, if he prefers three syllables, ‘AQUABIB.’
