teetotaling

adj
/ˈtitoʊtəlɪŋ/US/ˈtiːtəʊtəlɪŋ/UK

Etymology

From teetotal + -ing.

Definitions

  1. Abstaining from alcohol.

    • Most were some variation of the girl-whistling, boyish, movie kind, but a few were serious, teetotalling and religious.
    • Their teetotalling, absolutist frame of mind, along with its associated attitudes, simply closed off the option to drink.
    • Insull was English, from an earnest, teetotalling family of modest means. He had learned shorthand and was advancing nicely in a London firm of auctioneers ...
  2. present participle of teetotal

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for teetotaling. 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