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English
Etymology
Ellipsis of cold water, without sugar.
Noun
cold without (uncountable)
- (colloquial) Brandy with cold water and no sugar.
1850 June 15, Samuel Hickson, “ Further Notes on Derivation of the Word ‘News.’”, in Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc., volume II, number 36 (6 July 1850), London: George Bell, , published 1851, page 82, column 1:If A. E. B. should assert that a glass of “cold without,” because, by those accustomed to indulge in such potations, it was understood to mean “brandy and cold water, without sugar,” was really a draught from some “well of purest English undefil’d,” the confusion of ideas could not be more complete.