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non-drinker

noun

Etymology

From non- + drinker.

  1. inherited from *drinkārijaz✻ — “drinker”
  2. inherited from drincere — “drinker”
  3. inherited from drinkere
  4. prefixed as non-drinker — “non + drinker”

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of nondrinker (“one who does not drink any specified beverage,…

    Alternative form of nondrinker (“one who does not drink any specified beverage, especially alcohol”).

    • Many of the persons listed as non-drinkers of milk actually consumed some of the raw article on cereals, puddings, etc. Many took it only in coffee, but in that case the heat of the coffee would be sufficient to destroy the organism.
    • […] A non-drinker of milk, she must […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for non-drinker. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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