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Dipsomaniac

//dɪp.sə(ʊ)ˈmeɪn.i.æk// noun

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Noun
  1. 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. 2
    a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually wordnet
  3. 3
    A persistently drunken person; a drunkard.

Etymology

From dipso- + -maniac.

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