teetotallerteetotalern.
One who abstains (esp. one who pledges himself to abstain) from the use of any intoxicating liquor; a total abstainer.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > abstention from drinking > [noun] > total abstinence > total abstainer
water-drinker1440
abstainerc1475
Rechabite1637
drink-watera1641
hydropotist1678
hydropot1727
teetotal1834
teetotaller1834
teetotalist1840
Washingtonian1842
Good Templar1853
teetotalleress1854
blue-ribbonist1858
nephalist1861
total abstainer1862
blue-ribbonite1867
totec1870
Templar1874
blue ribboner1878
total abstinent1882
water butt1882
white ribboner1886
non-drinker1910
pioneer1912
T.T.1922
1834 Preston Temp. Adv. Aug. 57/2 What is the whole matter in dispute betwixt the moderates and the tee-totallers?
1835 E. C. Delavan Let. 23 Jan. 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.
1839 F. Marryat Diary in Amer. III. 182 Massachusetts is now divided into two very strange political parties, to wit, the topers and the tee-totallers.
1869 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 268 The 84th Regiment..numbered many teetotallers.
Derivatives
teeˈtotalleress n. a female teetotaller.Apparently an isolated use.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > abstention from drinking > [noun] > total abstinence > total abstainer
water-drinker1440
abstainerc1475
Rechabite1637
drink-watera1641
hydropotist1678
hydropot1727
teetotal1834
teetotaller1834
teetotalist1840
Washingtonian1842
Good Templar1853
teetotalleress1854
blue-ribbonist1858
nephalist1861
total abstainer1862
blue-ribbonite1867
totec1870
Templar1874
blue ribboner1878
total abstinent1882
water butt1882
white ribboner1886
non-drinker1910
pioneer1912
T.T.1922
1854 W. M. Thackeray J. Leech's Pictures in Wks. (1900) XIII. 484 And there was George [Cruikshank]..handing some teetotaleresses over a plank to the table where the pledge was being administered.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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