teetotaling

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
15
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/ˈtitoʊtəlɪŋ/
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/ˈtitoʊtəlɪŋ/ · /ˈtiːtəʊtəlɪŋ/

Definition of teetotaling

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (US, not-comparable)Abstaining from alcohol.
    “Most were some variation of the girl-whistling, boyish, movie kind, but a few were serious, teetotalling and religious.”
    “Their teetotalling, absolutist frame of mind, along with its associated attitudes, simply closed off the option to drink.”
    “Insull was English, from an earnest, teetotalling family of modest means. He had learned shorthand and was advancing nicely in a London firm of auctioneers ...”
    “The name of this spacious restaurant and lounge is an ironic reference [to] the teetotaling Andrew J. Volstead, the Minnesota congressman who sponsored the act enforcing Prohibition in 1919.”
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adj

  1. (US, not-comparable)Abstaining from alcohol.
    “Most were some variation of the girl-whistling, boyish, movie kind, but a few were serious, teetotalling and religious.”
    “Their teetotalling, absolutist frame of mind, along with its associated attitudes, simply closed off the option to drink.”
    “Insull was English, from an earnest, teetotalling family of modest means. He had learned shorthand and was advancing nicely in a London firm of auctioneers ...”
    “The name of this spacious restaurant and lounge is an ironic reference [to] the teetotaling Andrew J. Volstead, the Minnesota congressman who sponsored the act enforcing Prohibition in 1919.”

verb

  1. (form-of, participle, present)present participle of teetotal

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Etymology

From teetotal + -ing.

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