Teetotaling
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈtitoʊtəlɪŋ/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Teetotaling is an adjective meaning (US) Abstaining from alcohol.
Meaning
(US) Abstaining from alcohol.
More Meanings
- present participle of teetotal
Example Sentences
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 .
The name of this spacious restaurant and lounge is an ironic reference [to] the teetotaling Andrew J. Volstead, the Minnesota congressman who sponsored the act enforcing Prohibition in 1919.
Word Forms
- teetotalling
Synonyms for teetotaling
Depending on context, synonyms include teetotalism.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include teetotalism, alcoholless, abstemious, dramless, boozeless, nolo.
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