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Dipsomaniac

noun
1.
A person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually.  Synonyms: alcoholic, alky, boozer, lush, soaker, souse.






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"Dipsomaniac" Quotes from Famous Books



... according to my point of view, is a quiet, pleasant-looking gentleman who lives somewhere in the West End of London. He has, however, a tragedy in his past life. He is the husband of a dipsomaniac wife. She is, of course, under care, and is never mentioned in the house where he lives, maybe with his widowed mother and perhaps a maiden sister. They notice that he has become gloomy and brooding of late, but he lives his usual life, occupying himself each day with some harmless hobby. On foggy ...
— The Lodger • Marie Belloc Lowndes

... one. And we didn't want a uniform hanging around and rubbing it into the poor boy and everybody else that he was an incurable dipsomaniac." ...
— The Return of the Prodigal • May Sinclair



Words linked to "Dipsomaniac" :   inebriate, drunk, rummy, wino, drunkard, soaker, lush, sot



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