Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who suffers from an irresistible and insatiable craving for intoxicants.
- Of or pertaining to dipsomania.
Wiktionary
- n. One with a morbid paroxysmal craving for alcohol; an alcoholic.
- n. A persistently drunken person; a drunkard.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who has an irrepressible desire for alcoholic drinks.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually
Examples
“A self-indulgent rather unsocial habit-forming man may very easily become what is called a dipsomaniac, no doubt, but that is not the same thing as an inherited specific craving.”
“She has played incestuous mothers and hardcore depressives and dipsomaniac good-time girls.”
“In the first place, I am convinced that not one man in ten thousand or in a hundred thousand is a genuine, chemical dipsomaniac.”
“I survived, through no personal virtue, but because I did not have the chemistry of a dipsomaniac and because I possessed an organism unusually resistant to the ravages of John Barleycorn.”
“You have shown yourself no alcoholic, no dipsomaniac, but merely an habitual drinker, one who has made John Barleycorn's acquaintance through long years of rubbing shoulders with him.”
“I have no word to say for or about the microscopically unimportant excessivist, the dipsomaniac.”
“And no, it's not that ankle-monitored dipsomaniac Lindsay Lohan.”
“In particular, she resented his insinuation that she was a dipsomaniac.”
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“Alone, George Schuyler became a dedicated dipsomaniac, who had been dead for several days before being discovered.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dipsomaniac’.
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Ends with C but not with "-ic"
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cicatrix
scar tissue
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July
vapulate, cattywampus, oneiric, petrichor, dithyramb, lea, dreadnaught, haruspex, caryatid, stentorian, cynosure, lunula and 22 more...
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Sot
a partaker of a dram too many. consult also whichbe's Drunkie list
sot, toper, drunkard, boozehound, tosspot, wino, lick-wimble, souse, lush, alky, juicer, inebriate and 47 more...
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ShuckFinn's Words
abecedarian, conflate, mondegreen, whit, truculent, downright, pugnacious, effluvium, canker, inveigle, obfuscate, melancholy and 227 more...
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My Favorite Words
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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found in Fuentes
Words found in books by Carlos Fuentes, as translated by Sam Hileman.
nickelodeon, stipendiary, dipsomaniac, bonhomie, goldbrick, Lower Empire Posture, lissome, gabardine
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Menckeniana
Words I learned from H. L. Mencken, words he used often, words that remind me of him, &c. ...Why, yes, he is one of my favorite authors.
menckenite, balderdash, bombast, buncombe, chrestomathy, cynicism, dephlogisticate, dipsomaniac, hyperbolic, iconoclast, irreverent, juvenalian and 27 more...
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The Fountainhead
Vocabulary from The Fountainhead.
evince, indigent, vapid, premonitory, acetic, sublime, sonorous, abnegation, proletariat, syllogism, expiation, spasmodically and 34 more...
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The Fantastical Repertoire of Captain...
The popular Belgian cartoon Tintin contains a memorable character in the form of Captain Haddock. He has a remarkable repertory of insults, which render just as well in the English translation. Thi...
ostrogoth, brigand, body-snatcher, steamroller, phylloxera, pyrographer, abecedarian, breathalyser, rhizopod, anthropophagus, odd-toed ungulate, hydrocarbon and 88 more...
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