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dipsomaniac
[ dip-suh-mey-nee-ak, -soh- ]
noun
- (no longer in technical use) a person with alcoholism or alcohol use disorder, especially characterized by an irresistible, typically periodic craving for alcoholic drinks.
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Other Words From
- dip·so·ma·ni·a·cal [dip-s, uh, -m, uh, -, nahy, -, uh, -k, uh, l, -soh-], adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of dipsomaniac1
First recorded in 1855–60; dipsomani(a) + -ac
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Synonym Study
See inebriate.
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Example Sentences
The present Duke had none of the spirit or sense of his ancestors, and was, moreover, a dipsomaniac.
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The drunkard who drinks in spite of himself is, strictly speaking, a dipsomaniac, and is diseased and insane.
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In a small room on the roof lived a Hindustani hospital assistant—the gentlemanly dipsomaniac whom I have already introduced.
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If Fate had really marked him out for a dipsomaniac, was it any use his fighting against what must inevitably be his destiny?
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There Grogan succeeded in convincing him of the folly of engaging in a street argument with a dipsomaniac he did not know.
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