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"
bloc, roc, arc, orc, disc, sac, xebec, havoc, bivouac, sumac, maniac, insomniac and 418 more...
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cicatrix
scar tissue
minatory, naira, Cluniac, embracive, prolix, hierophant, timorous, adduce, veracious, dysphoric, sang-froid, vitiate and 414 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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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

wuwu4u 388 Sep 14, 2007
john I'm a retired one of these. Sep 12, 2007