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Alcoholic   /ˌælkəhˈɑlɪk/   Listen
Alcoholic

adjective
1.
Characteristic of or containing alcohol.
2.
Addicted to alcohol.  Synonym: alcohol-dependent.
noun
1.
A person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually.  Synonyms: alky, boozer, dipsomaniac, lush, soaker, souse.



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"Alcoholic" Quotes from Famous Books



... barley have been cultivated as food from the earliest times, the grain is now used principally in the manufacture of malt. In this form, it is used for the malting of foods and in the making of alcoholic liquors. To produce malt, the barley grains are moistened and allowed to sprout, and during this process of sprouting the starch of the barley is changed to sugar. The grains are then dried, and the sprouts, which are called malt sprouts, are broken off and sold as cattle food. ...
— Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 1 - Volume 1: Essentials of Cookery; Cereals; Bread; Hot Breads • Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

... departments in recent years, and I am told that during the war ingenious inventions for the more satisfactory employment of benzol have been adopted. Owing to the increased use of potatoes as food, the alcoholic extract from them, always a great German and Austro-Hungarian industry, has had to ...
— The Land of Deepening Shadow - Germany-at-War • D. Thomas Curtin

... in a cup of coffee or tea, without the knowledge of the person taking it; is absolutely harmless, and will effect a permanent and speedy cure, whether the patient is a moderate drinker or an alcoholic wreck. It never Fails. We *Guarantee* a complete cure in every instance. 48 page book free. GOLDEN SPECIFIC CO., 185 Race ...
— Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 • Various

... the words automatically, as the High Bailiff in his thick alcoholic voice read them out of the smaller of his books, and that Lord Raa, in tones of ...
— The Woman Thou Gavest Me - Being the Story of Mary O'Neill • Hall Caine

... admirable and detailed study of the normal and abnormal aspects of puberty, accepts a form of masturbatory insanity; but the only illustrative case he brings forward is a young man possessing various stigmata of degeneracy and the son of an alcoholic father; such a case tells us nothing regarding the results of simple masturbation.[330] Even Spitzka, who maintained several years ago the traditional views as to the terrible results of masturbation, and recognized a special "insanity of masturbation," ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis


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