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alcoholiday

noun
/ˌælkəˈhɒlɪdeɪ/UK/ˌælkəˈhɒləˌdeɪ/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Akkadian 𒎎𒋆𒁉𒍣𒁕 (guḫlum)bor. Aramaic כוחלא (kuḥlā)bor. Arabic كُحْل (kuḥl) Andalusian Arabic اَلْكُحُول (al-kuḥūl)bor. Medieval Latin alcoholder. Middle English alcofol English alcohol Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos Proto-Germanic *hailaz Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-Germanic *hailagaz Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ-? Proto-Germanic *dagaz Proto-Germanic *hailagadagaz Old English hāliġdæġ Middle English halyday English holiday blend English alcoholiday Blend of alcohol + holiday.

  1. inherited from hāliġdæġ — “holy day, Sabbath”
  2. inherited from halyday
  3. compounded as alcoholiday — “alcohol + holiday”

Definitions

  1. A holiday or leisure time spent drinking alcohol.

    • [N]ow you see we are out on a frolic, a spree,—on an alcoholiday. See it?
    • In a short story that I have recently read, one of the characters, a "sport," speaks of the Christmas season as the alcoholidays.

  2. A period of time during which one intentionally abstains from drinking alcohol.

    • For skin disorders, we sometimes fix the diet by ordering the patient off the Seven Deadly C's—cocktails, coffee, chocolate, condiments, carbohydrates, cigarettes, and cheese. We often add an admonition to take an alcoholiday.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA