teetotaling
adj/ˈtitoʊtəlɪŋ/US/ˈtiːtəʊtəlɪŋ/UK
Etymology
From teetotal + -ing.
Definitions
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 ...
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