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water drinker

noun

Definitions

  1. Someone who drinks water, especially in preference to alcoholic drinks

    Someone who drinks water, especially in preference to alcoholic drinks; a teetotaler.

    • Could not resist Metcalfe's fine dishes and wines. Sir Joshua began to be a water-drinker.
    • Ben Franklin, an American and a water drinker, found his fellow workers at Watts's printing house ‘great guzzlers of beer’ around 1725.

  2. A member of an early Christian sect which drank water instead of wine during the…

    A member of an early Christian sect which drank water instead of wine during the Eucharist.

  3. Someone who drinks the waters at a spa.

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