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TEETOTALER (teetotaler)
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Dictionary entry overview: What does teetotaler mean?
• TEETOTALER (noun)
The noun TEETOTALER has 1 sense:
1. a total abstainer
Familiarity information: TEETOTALER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A total abstainer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
teetotaler; teetotalist; teetotaller
Hypernyms ("teetotaler" is a kind of...):
abstainer; abstinent; nondrinker (a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages)
Context examples
The husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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