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Dipsomaniac   Listen
noun
Dipsomaniac  n.  One who has an irrepressible desire for alcoholic drinks.





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"Dipsomaniac" Quotes from Famous Books



... often a furtive drinker." The two things of course rest upon exactly the same philosophy; the philosophy of the taboo. There is a mystical substance, and it can give monstrous pleasures or call down monstrous punishments. 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. But if I had mentioned that fragment of family information without ...
— George Bernard Shaw • Gilbert K. Chesterton


Words linked to "Dipsomaniac" :   sot, wino, rummy, drunk, boozer, alcoholic, inebriate


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