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dipsomaniac

[ dip-suh-mey-nee-ak, -soh- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

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.

dip·so·ma·ni·a·cal [dip-s, uh, -m, uh, -, nahy, -, uh, -k, uh, l, -soh-], adjective

First recorded in 1855–60; dipsomani(a) + -ac

The present Duke had none of the spirit or sense of his ancestors, and was, moreover, a dipsomaniac.

The drunkard who drinks in spite of himself is, strictly speaking, a dipsomaniac, and is diseased and insane.

In a small room on the roof lived a Hindustani hospital assistant—the gentlemanly dipsomaniac whom I have already introduced.

If Fate had really marked him out for a dipsomaniac, was it any use his fighting against what must inevitably be his destiny?

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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