Dipsomaniac
/dɪp.sə(ʊ)ˈmeɪn.i.æk/ noun
noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 One with a morbid paroxysmal craving for alcohol; an alcoholic.
"The dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink."
- 2 a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually wordnet
- 3 A persistently drunken person; a drunkard.
Example
More examples"He is eminently practical, withal; and not satisfied with describing and deploring the effects of drunkenness, he gives us a recipe which he warrants to cure the most hardened dipsomaniac within a week."
Etymology
From dipso- + -maniac.