Teetotaling

//ˈtitoʊtəlɪŋ// adj, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    abstaining from alcohol wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle of teetotal form-of, participle, present
Adjective
  1. 1
    Abstaining from alcohol. US, not-comparable

    "Most were some variation of the girl-whistling, boyish, movie kind, but a few were serious, teetotalling and religious."

Synonyms

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abstemiousteetotalism

Example

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"Most were some variation of the girl-whistling, boyish, movie kind, but a few were serious, teetotalling and religious."

Etymology

From teetotal + -ing.

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