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teeˈtotaller, -aler
[f. as teetotalist + -er1.]
One who abstains (esp. one who pledges himself to abstain) from the use of any intoxicating liquor; a total abstainer.
1834Preston Temp. Adv. Aug. 57/2 What is the whole matter in dispute betwixt the moderates and the tee-totallers? 1835E. C. Delavan Let. (Jan. 23) in Life of J. Livesey i. p. cxii, We [in U.S.] begin to feel the influence of your noble example. Our people by thousands are becoming tee⁓totallers. 1836(title) Brief Sketch of the Life of Charles Watson, a Tee-Totaller in Liverpool. 1839Marryat Diary Amer. Ser. i. III. 182 Massachusetts is now divided into two very strange political parties, to wit, the topers and the tee-totallers. 1869E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 268 The 84th Regiment..numbered many teetotallers.
Hence teeˈtotalleress nonce-wd., a female teetotaller.
1854Thackeray J. Leech's Pict. Life & Char. Wks. 1900 XIII. 484 And there was George [Cruikshank]..handing some teetotaleresses over a plank to the table where the pledge was being administered. |