Liffey water

Liffey water
n
Irish and British
Guinness. The Liffey is the river flowing through Dublin, where Guinness is brewed, and Liffey water is an archaic rhyming-term for porter, of which Guin-ness is an example.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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