dipsomaniac

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/dɪp.sə(ʊ)ˈmeɪn.i.æk/ (UK)

Definition of dipsomaniac

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noun

One with a morbid paroxysmal craving for alcohol; an alcoholic.

“The dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.”
“The Spaniards are nice, but, of course, most of them are terribly poor, the ones who aren’t are impossible, I don’t like the tourists, mainly English and American dipsomaniacs, paid, my dear, by their families to stay away.”

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noun

One with a morbid paroxysmal craving for alcohol; an alcoholic.

“The dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.”
“The Spaniards are nice, but, of course, most of them are terribly poor, the ones who aren’t are impossible, I don’t like the tourists, mainly English and American dipsomaniacs, paid, my dear, by their families to stay away.”
A persistently drunken person; a drunkard.

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From dipso- + -maniac.

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