dipson.
colloquial.
= dipsomaniac n. and adj.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > relating to or having irrational love or desire
hydromaniacal1855
ghoulish1862
dipsomaniacal1865
dipso1880
dipsomaniac1896
urolagnic1906
hippomanic1963
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > alcoholic or addicted to drinking > craving alcohol
dipsomaniacal1865
dipso1880
dipsomaniac1896
the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > irrational loves and desires > person
opsomaniac1842
hippomaniac1850
oenomaniac1857
dipsomaniac1858
theomaniac1863
xenomaniac1879
bibliokleptomaniac1881
opiomaniac1889
nosophile1895
dipso1923
power maniac1943
leprophil1959
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > one who drinks to excess > alcoholic or habitual drinker
supper?1529
blow-bowl1530
drunkard1530
drunkera1538
blow-bottle1580
tippler1580
potman1589
red nose1591
sot1592
water rat1593
ply-pot1611
potter1632
pothead1639
pisspot1655
pitcher-man1665
whetter1709
inebriate1794
rummy1843
alcoholic1852
oenomaniac1857
dipsomaniac1858
alcoholizer1880
alcoholist1888
potationist1888
lush1890
rumdum1891
rumhound1895
blacklister1904
dipso1923
rumpot1929
alky1944
juice-head1955
alcohol abuser1965
juicer1967
substance abuser1967
jakey1988
1880 G. B. Shaw Let. 29 Nov. (1965) I. 36 How long do you suppose an average woman (dipso as described)..would last alive after the inability to retain food or drink set in?
1923 A. Huxley Antic Hay xiv. 217 Vicious young women. Lesbians, drug-fiends, nymphomaniacs, dipsos—thoroughly vicious, nowadays.
1935 E. Williams Night must Fall 30 Maniacs can't get far without cash..however dipso or nympho they may be.
1959 J. Braine Vodi xxv. 269 I didn't mean that you were a dipso... But I've never been out with you when we didn't go into a pub.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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