TEETOTAL


Meaning of TEETOTAL in English

■ adjective choosing or characterized by abstinence from alcohol.

Derivatives

~ism noun

~ler noun

Origin

C19: emphatic extension of total , appar. first used by Richard Turner, a worker from Preston, in a speech (1833) urging total abstinence from all alcohol.

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