dry mustard

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   a substance such that one to three tablespoons dissolved in a glass of warm water is a homemade emetic

   Synonymspowdered mustard

   Broaderemeticmustard

Questions about dry mustard

What does dry mustard mean?

dry mustard means "a substance such that one to three tablespoons dissolved in a glass of warm water is a homemade emetic".

What is another word for dry mustard?

Close synonyms include powdered mustard. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dry mustard a common word?

dry mustard 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.