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Teetotaler   /tˌitˌoʊtˈeɪlər/   Listen
Teetotaler

noun
1.
A total abstainer.  Synonyms: teetotalist, teetotaller.





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"Teetotaler" Quotes from Famous Books



... fraternity gave him a dinner at Delmonico's, which was then at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Fourteenth Street, formerly the hospitable house of Moses H. Grinnell. At this dinner Mr. Greeley presided, and that the bland and eccentric teetotaler, who was not supposed to be versed in what Carlyle called the "tea-table proprieties," should take the chair at a dinner to so roistering a blade—within discreet limits—and so skilled an artist of all kinds of beverages as Dickens, was a stroke of extravaganza ...
— From the Easy Chair, vol. 1 • George William Curtis
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... caused him to become a total abstainer from all kinds of intoxicating beverages. He simply became a dyspeptic through a weird devotion to the pieces and pastries "like Mary French used to make," and he became a teetotaler because the doctors mistook the cause of his ...
— Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions - Vol. I • Slason Thompson
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Words linked to "Teetotaler" :   nondrinker, teetotalist, abstainer, teetotaller, abstinent


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