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Teetotal

adjective

Practicing complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages. Synonym: dry. "No thank you; I happen to be teetotal"

verb

Practice teetotalism and abstain from the consumption of alcoholic beverages.

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"Teetotal" Quotes from Famous Books

... had to do something,' continued Easton; 'and I reckon we're lucky to get a respectable sort of chap like Slyme, religious and teetotal and all that, you know. ...

— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell

... my pipe in the last blooming charge." In a letter from the front, published in the Glasgow Herald, this passage occurs: "Our fellows have signed the pledge because Kitchener wants them to. But they all say, 'God help the Germans, when we get hold of them for making us teetotal.'" ...

— Tommy Atkins at War - As Told in His Own Letters • James Alexander Kilpatrick

... That, however, did not prevent Punch from chaffing "the Great George" upon occasion, as when he was preparing his "Life of Falstaff" the journal gravely assumed that he would reform that incorrigible tippler into a "teetotal Falstaff," and protested against the enthusiast mixing water so copiously with the milk of his human kindness. So Cruikshank set off in great wrath towards Fleet Street to seek out the scoffer, and, meeting Blanchard Jerrold, sputtered out his purpose and declared that ...

— The History of "Punch" • M. H. Spielmann

... start perhaps on Tuesday. Pardon me for expressing myself on one matter—the Chinese teetotal business. You and some of my colleagues seem to me as if I could not move you on this question. It is a great grief to me. I think you are not right in your ideas about this. I suppose you can beat me in argument. I am still more than ever convinced that teetotalism is right and ...

— James Gilmour of Mongolia - His diaries, letters, and reports • James Gilmour

... employer in search of congenial opinions. But George was not the average employer, and the fastidious element in him began soon to make him uncomfortable. Sobriety is, no doubt, admirable, but he had no sooner detected a teetotal cant in his companion than that particular axiom ceased to matter to him. And to think poorly of Burrows might be a salutary feature in a man's character, but it should be for some respectable reason. ...

— Sir George Tressady, Vol. I • Mrs. Humphry Ward

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