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teetotaler

English

Alternative forms

  • teetotaller (British)

Etymology

teetotal +? -er

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /?tito?t?l?/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?ti?t??t?l?/
  • Hyphenation: tee?to?tal?er

Noun

teetotaler (plural teetotalers)

  1. (US spelling) A person who completely abstains from alcoholic beverages.

Related terms

  • teetotal
  • teetotally
  • teetotaling
  • teetotalism

Translations

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nephalist

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (n?phálios, “sober”), from ???? (n?ph?, “to be sober”)

Noun

nephalist (plural nephalists)

  1. (obsolete, Temperance movement) One who practises nephalism; a teetotaller
    • 1865 "Obituary: The Late Professor Miller," Edinburgh medical journal - Volume 10, Part 1, 92:
      [...] but he was at the same time so zealous and scrupulously honest a nephalist, as he called himself, that he immediately gave up the use of wine when the distinctness of the need for it became obscured.

Related terms

  • nephalism

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