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1 teetotal
[tiː'təʊtl] [AE 'tiːtəʊtl]* * *[ti:'təutl](never taking alcoholic drink: The whole family is teetotal.) astemio* * *teetotal /ti:ˈtəʊtl/a.2 antialcolico; contrario all'uso degli alcolici● a teetotal meeting, una riunione contro l'uso degli alcolici □ teetotal pledge, impegno di rinunciare all'alcolteetotalismn. [u]2 antialcolismo.* * *[tiː'təʊtl] [AE 'tiːtəʊtl] -
2 teetotal tee·to·tal adj
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abbr. teetotal astemio* * *[ˌtiː'tiː]1. adj abbr BritSee:2. abbr AmPost, (= Trust Territory)* * *TTabbr.* * *abbr. teetotal astemio -
4 teetotalism
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5 teetotaller
teetotaler [tiː'təʊtələ(r)] nome astemio m. (-a)* * *noun (a person who is teetotal.) astemio* * *teetotaller, teetotaler /ti:ˈtəʊtələ(r)/n.astemio, astemia ( per principio).* * *teetotaler [tiː'təʊtələ(r)] nome astemio m. (-a)
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Teetotal — Tee*to tal, a. Entire; total. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
teetotal — (v.) pledged to total abstinence from intoxicating drink, 1834, possibly formed from TOTAL (Cf. total) with a reduplication of the initial T for emphasis (T totally totally, though not in an abstinence sense, is recorded in Kentucky dialect from… … Etymology dictionary
teetotal — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ choosing or characterized by abstinence from alcohol. DERIVATIVES teetotalism noun teetotaller noun. ORIGIN emphatic extension of TOTAL(Cf. ↑totally), apparently first used by Richard Turner, a worker from Preston, in a speech… … English terms dictionary
teetotal — [tē′tōt′ l, tē′tōt΄ l] adj. [redupl., for emphasis, of initial letter of TOTAL] 1. Informal entire; complete 2. of or advocating teetotalism teetotaler n. teetotaller teetotally adv … English World dictionary
teetotal — [[t]tiːto͟ʊt(ə)l, AM ti͟ːtoʊt(ə)l[/t]] ADJ: usu v link ADJ Someone who is teetotal does not drink alcohol. He will not be having a celebratory drink, as he is teetotal … English dictionary
teetotal — adj. (esp. BrE) VERBS ▪ be ▪ become ▪ remain ADVERB ▪ strictly ▪ I m strictly teetotal … Collocations dictionary
teetotal — tee|to|tal [ˌti:ˈtəutl US ˈtou ] adj someone who is teetotal never drinks alcohol >teetotalism n [U] … Dictionary of contemporary English
teetotal — tee|to|tal [ ti toutl ] adjective someone who is teetotal never drinks alcohol ╾ tee|to|tal|ism noun uncount … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
teetotal — [19] The adverb teetotally is first recorded in America in 1832 (James Hall, in his Legends of West Philadelphia, recorded a Kentucky backwoodsman as saying ‘These Mingoes … ought to be essentially, and particularly, and tee totally obflisticated … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
teetotal — UK [tiːˈtəʊt(ə)l] / US [tɪˈtoʊt(ə)l] adjective someone who is teetotal never drinks alcohol Derived word: teetotalism noun uncountable … English dictionary
teetotal — [19] The adverb teetotally is first recorded in America in 1832 (James Hall, in his Legends of West Philadelphia, recorded a Kentucky backwoodsman as saying ‘These Mingoes … ought to be essentially, and particularly, and tee totally obflisticated … Word origins