barley water

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   broth used to feed infants

   Broaderbroth

Questions about barley water

What does barley water mean?

barley water means "broth used to feed infants".

Is barley water a common word?

barley water is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.