Epsom salts en · NOUN
Etymology
Named after Epsom in Surrey, England; the town had a spring which gave forth bitter saline water containing the compound.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) magnesium sulfate, used as a laxative and in the preparation of tofu as a coagulator, and formerly as a medicated soaking solution.
And who but July would know […] that her back needed to be rubbed after she had drank^([sic]) her Epsom salts so as to release, into a belch or fart, the wind that so plagued her.
2010, Andrea Levy, The Long Song, Tinder Press (2017), pages 71–72:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Epsom salts | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (10)
gu વિલાયતી મીઠું (common name for magnesium sulfate) · ru англи́йская соль (common name for magnesium sulfate) · hu keserűsó (common name for magnesium sulfate) · yi ביטערזאַלץ (common name for magnesium sulfate) · fi katkerosuola (common name for magnesium sulfate) · kac săhka (common name for magnesium sulfate) · fi karvassuola (common name for magnesium sulfate) · yi ענגלישע זאַלץ (common name for magnesium sulfate) · my ဆားခါး (common name for magnesium sulfate) · el θειικό μαγνήσιο (common name for magnesium sulfate)