teetotaladj.n.

/tiːˈtəʊtəl/

Forms: Also erron. tea-.

Etymology: A kind of emphasizing reduplication or extension of the word total adj. and n.The most specific account of this word is that it was first used (in sense A. 1) by a working-man, Richard Turner of Preston, about September, 1833, in a speech advocating total abstinence from intoxicating liquors, in preference to abstinence from ardent spirits only, as practised by some early temperance reformers. Among those present on the occasion was Mr. Joseph Livesey, one of the ‘Seven men of Preston’, who there formed the first Total Abstinence Society on 22 March 1832, and in whose Autobiography (1867–8), included in his Life & Labours by John Pearce (1885), particulars will be found. The Preston Temperance Advocate, a monthly magazine started by Mr. Livesey in Jan. 1834, shows the rapid advance of ‘Dicky Turner's word’ from a humorous or allusive to a fully adopted term (see quots. above). The issue for April 1836 has a full-page portrait of ‘Dicky Turner, now celebrated as being the author of the word Tee-total’. This statement is also made on his tomb-stone at Preston, where he died 27 Oct. 1846. It has been suggested that Turner only used a word colloquially current in Lancashire in the general sense A. 2. But to this the whole tenor of contemporary evidence is opposed: and the examples of tee-total in sense A. 2 in Eng. Dial. Dict. are all of much later date. But there is proof that the adverb tee-totally , as an emphasized form of totally , was used in U.S. in 1832, and it has also been said to have been common in Ireland from a much earlier date. Totally is much more frequent in colloquial use than total , and it is quite possible that it was strengthened to tee-totally much earlier, and that tee-total in the specific sense arose independently, and without any knowledge of the adverb. It has also been asserted that, in the total abstinence sense, the word arose at Lansing, New York, in Jan. 1827, from the use on pledge cards of T. to indicate ‘total’, and the consequent collocation ‘T.-total’. This is particularly stated in the Cent. Dict. 1891, on the authority of the Rev. Joel Jewell, but without any contemporary evidence; while the correspondence in the Life of Livesey above mentioned (Pt. i. cviii–cxv) shows that the total abstinence movement in U.S., and with it the use of teetotal , followed and was greatly influenced by the Preston movement. By Worcester, 1846, teetotal is called ‘a modern cant word’, the letter T standing for temperance : ‘that is temperance-totalism ’; for it reference is made only to British periodicals. So to Webster 1847 Tee-totaler was ‘a cant word formed in England’. Compare 1840 in sense A. 1.

A. adj.

1. Of or pertaining to total abstinence from alcoholic drinks; pledged to, or devoted to the furtherance of, total abstinence.

ΘΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > abstention from drinking > [adjective] > total abstinence

water-drinking?1616

hydropotic1623

teetotal1834

teetotalling1839

water wagon1889

on the wagon1906

temperance1907

pussyfoot1919

bone-dry1920

T.T.1922

1834 Preston Temperance Advocate Apr. 29/2 (signature of letter) A Lover of Sociality, and a ‘Tee-Total’ Abstainer.

1834 Preston Temperance Advocate Apr. 30/2 He..is now a tee-total abstinence member, and is an ornament to the Society.

1834 Preston Temperance Advocate May 38/2 The same man has since..signed the tee-total pledge.

1834 Preston Temperance Advocate Sept. 65/2 The tee-total system is a saving of time, a saving of money.

1837 Preston Temperance Advocate Apr. 29/1 A request, that a return should be made from all the tee-total societies in the kingdom.

1837 R. H. Barham Let. in Life (1871) And surely the captain Won't think of adapting His taste to these teetotal fancies.

1840 Dr. W. Patton in Jrnl. Amer. Temp. Union June 87 Total abstinence from all intoxicating drinks is a principle of English manufacture... So they adopted what they call the teetotal pledge (though I don't like the name); and they sent that back to us.

1885 J. Runciman Skippers & Shellbacks 14 You've made me be teetotal for three months.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 234 Much stress has been laid by teetotal advocates on the paramount influence of parental intemperance on the procreation of a mentally deficient progeny.

2. dialect. Absolute, complete, perfect, entire. (More emphatic than total.) Cf. teetotally adv.¹

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > utter or absolute

shirea1225

purec1300

properc1380

plainc1395

cleana1400

fine?a1400

entirec1400

veryc1400

starka1425

utterc1430

utterlyc1440

merec1443

absolute1531

outright1532

cleara1535

bloodyc1540

unproachable1544

flat1553

downright1577

sheer1583

right-down?1586

single1590

peremptory1601

perfecta1616

downa1625

implicit1625

every way1628

blank1637

out-and-outa1642

errant1644

inaccessional1651

thorough-paced1651

even down1654

dead1660

double-dyed1667

through stitch1681

through-stitched1682

total1702

thoroughgoing1719

thorough-sped1730

regular1740

plumb1748

hollow1751

unextenuated1765

unmitigated1783

stick, stock, stone dead1796

positive1802

rank1809

heart-whole1823

skire1825

solid1830

fair1835

teetotal1840

bodacious1845

raw1856

literal1857

resounding1873

roaring1884

all out1893

fucking1893

pink1896

twenty-four carat1900

grand slam1915

stone1928

diabolical1933

fricking1937

righteous1940

fecking1952

raving1954

1840 F. Marryat Olla Podrida III. 25 A man in Bedlam is a very useless member of society, and a tee-total non-productive.

1849 J. O. O'Connell Recoll. Parl. Career II. 136 The Corn Law Abolitionists—the Teetotal men..of course saw through Sir Robert Peel's speech at once.

1884 Lays & Leg. N. Irel. 69 The Divil well knowin'..his teetotal want av contrition.

B. n. (The adjective used absol.; now rare or dialect)

1. The total abstinence principle or pledge; teetotalism; a society for the promotion of total abstinence.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > abstention from drinking > [noun] > total abstinence > total abstinence society

temperance association1831

temperance society1831

teetotal1834

Band of Hope1847

Good Templary1872

Blue Ribbon Army1877

W.C.T.U.1888

1834 Preston Temp. Adv. Nov. 85/1 Every system that does not go on the basis of tee-total is quackery.

1834 Preston Temp. Adv. Oct. 77/2 Mr. H. Snell..then came forward and signed the tee-total.

1834 Preston Temp. Adv. Nov. 83/2 There is no remedy for the sufferings of the working classes except joining the tee-total.

a1843 J. Stewart Sketches Sc. Char. (1857) 149 (E.D.D.) I maun join the Teetotal.

1845 B. Disraeli Sybil I. ii. x. 212 Glass of water for the Secretary of the Mowbray Temperance and Teatotal.

2. A total abstainer; a teetotaller. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > abstention from drinking > [noun] > total abstinence > total abstainer

water-drinker1440

abstainerc1475

Rechabite1637

drink-watera1641

hydropotist1678

hydropot1727

teetotal1834

teetotaller1834

teetotalist1840

Washingtonian1842

Good Templar1853

teetotalleress1854

blue-ribbonist1858

nephalist1861

total abstainer1862

blue-ribbonite1867

totec1870

Templar1874

blue ribboner1878

total abstinent1882

water butt1882

white ribboner1886

non-drinker1910

pioneer1912

T.T.1922

1834 Preston Temp. Adv. May 38/1 The number of members is about 196: the tee-totals about 30.

1855 O. W. Holmes Poems 200 Statesmen grow merry, lean attorneys laugh, And weak teetotals warm to half and half.

Derivatives

teeˈtotal v. (intransitive) to practise or advocate total abstinence.

ΘΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > abstention from drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > totally abstain from alcohol

abstain1784

to put (also keep) in the pin1827

to take (also sign, keep) the pledge1833

teetotal1883

to take the blue ribbon1884

teetotalize1898

1883 Cambr. Staircase iii. 37 We all indulge in intoxicants..except Westbury, who teetotals.

teeˈtotalling adj.

ΘΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > abstention from drinking > [adjective] > total abstinence

water-drinking?1616

hydropotic1623

teetotal1834

teetotalling1839

water wagon1889

on the wagon1906

temperance1907

pussyfoot1919

bone-dry1920

T.T.1922

1839 Brit. Critic No. 50. 267 The case of Timothy..is..made a text for ‘tee-totalling’ discourses.

1843 Fraser's Mag. 27 408 The regular..religious and teetotalling artisan.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	teetotal
释义	teetotaladj.n. /tiːˈtəʊtəl/ Forms: Also erron. tea-. Etymology: A kind of emphasizing reduplication or extension of the word total adj. and n.The most specific account of this word is that it was first used (in sense A. 1) by a working-man, Richard Turner of Preston, about September, 1833, in a speech advocating total abstinence from intoxicating liquors, in preference to abstinence from ardent spirits only, as practised by some early temperance reformers. Among those present on the occasion was Mr. Joseph Livesey, one of the ‘Seven men of Preston’, who there formed the first Total Abstinence Society on 22 March 1832, and in whose Autobiography (1867–8), included in his Life & Labours by John Pearce (1885), particulars will be found. The Preston Temperance Advocate, a monthly magazine started by Mr. Livesey in Jan. 1834, shows the rapid advance of ‘Dicky Turner's word’ from a humorous or allusive to a fully adopted term (see quots. above). The issue for April 1836 has a full-page portrait of ‘Dicky Turner, now celebrated as being the author of the word Tee-total’. This statement is also made on his tomb-stone at Preston, where he died 27 Oct. 1846. It has been suggested that Turner only used a word colloquially current in Lancashire in the general sense A. 2. But to this the whole tenor of contemporary evidence is opposed: and the examples of tee-total in sense A. 2 in Eng. Dial. Dict. are all of much later date. But there is proof that the adverb tee-totally , as an emphasized form of totally , was used in U.S. in 1832, and it has also been said to have been common in Ireland from a much earlier date. Totally is much more frequent in colloquial use than total , and it is quite possible that it was strengthened to tee-totally much earlier, and that tee-total in the specific sense arose independently, and without any knowledge of the adverb. It has also been asserted that, in the total abstinence sense, the word arose at Lansing, New York, in Jan. 1827, from the use on pledge cards of T. to indicate ‘total’, and the consequent collocation ‘T.-total’. This is particularly stated in the Cent. Dict. 1891, on the authority of the Rev. Joel Jewell, but without any contemporary evidence; while the correspondence in the Life of Livesey above mentioned (Pt. i. cviii–cxv) shows that the total abstinence movement in U.S., and with it the use of teetotal , followed and was greatly influenced by the Preston movement. By Worcester, 1846, teetotal is called ‘a modern cant word’, the letter T standing for temperance : ‘that is temperance-totalism ’; for it reference is made only to British periodicals. So to Webster 1847 Tee-totaler was ‘a cant word formed in England’. Compare 1840 in sense A. 1. A. adj. 1. Of or pertaining to total abstinence from alcoholic drinks; pledged to, or devoted to the furtherance of, total abstinence. ΘΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > abstention from drinking > [adjective] > total abstinence water-drinking?1616 hydropotic1623 teetotal1834 teetotalling1839 water wagon1889 on the wagon1906 temperance1907 pussyfoot1919 bone-dry1920 T.T.1922 1834 Preston Temperance Advocate Apr. 29/2 (signature of letter) A Lover of Sociality, and a ‘Tee-Total’ Abstainer. 1834 Preston Temperance Advocate Apr. 30/2 He..is now a tee-total abstinence member, and is an ornament to the Society. 1834 Preston Temperance Advocate May 38/2 The same man has since..signed the tee-total pledge. 1834 Preston Temperance Advocate Sept. 65/2 The tee-total system is a saving of time, a saving of money. 1837 Preston Temperance Advocate Apr. 29/1 A request, that a return should be made from all the tee-total societies in the kingdom. 1837 R. H. Barham Let. in Life (1871) And surely the captain Won't think of adapting His taste to these teetotal fancies. 1840 Dr. W. Patton in Jrnl. Amer. Temp. Union June 87 Total abstinence from all intoxicating drinks is a principle of English manufacture... So they adopted what they call the teetotal pledge (though I don't like the name); and they sent that back to us. 1885 J. Runciman Skippers & Shellbacks 14 You've made me be teetotal for three months. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 234 Much stress has been laid by teetotal advocates on the paramount influence of parental intemperance on the procreation of a mentally deficient progeny. 2. dialect. Absolute, complete, perfect, entire. (More emphatic than total.) Cf. teetotally adv.¹ ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > utter or absolute shirea1225 purec1300 properc1380 plainc1395 cleana1400 fine?a1400 entirec1400 veryc1400 starka1425 utterc1430 utterlyc1440 merec1443 absolute1531 outright1532 cleara1535 bloodyc1540 unproachable1544 flat1553 downright1577 sheer1583 right-down?1586 single1590 peremptory1601 perfecta1616 downa1625 implicit1625 every way1628 blank1637 out-and-outa1642 errant1644 inaccessional1651 thorough-paced1651 even down1654 dead1660 double-dyed1667 through stitch1681 through-stitched1682 total1702 thoroughgoing1719 thorough-sped1730 regular1740 plumb1748 hollow1751 unextenuated1765 unmitigated1783 stick, stock, stone dead1796 positive1802 rank1809 heart-whole1823 skire1825 solid1830 fair1835 teetotal1840 bodacious1845 raw1856 literal1857 resounding1873 roaring1884 all out1893 fucking1893 pink1896 twenty-four carat1900 grand slam1915 stone1928 diabolical1933 fricking1937 righteous1940 fecking1952 raving1954 1840 F. Marryat Olla Podrida III. 25 A man in Bedlam is a very useless member of society, and a tee-total non-productive. 1849 J. O. O'Connell Recoll. Parl. Career II. 136 The Corn Law Abolitionists—the Teetotal men..of course saw through Sir Robert Peel's speech at once. 1884 Lays & Leg. N. Irel. 69 The Divil well knowin'..his teetotal want av contrition. B. n. (The adjective used absol.; now rare or dialect) 1. The total abstinence principle or pledge; teetotalism; a society for the promotion of total abstinence. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > abstention from drinking > [noun] > total abstinence > total abstinence society temperance association1831 temperance society1831 teetotal1834 Band of Hope1847 Good Templary1872 Blue Ribbon Army1877 W.C.T.U.1888 1834 Preston Temp. Adv. Nov. 85/1 Every system that does not go on the basis of tee-total is quackery. 1834 Preston Temp. Adv. Oct. 77/2 Mr. H. Snell..then came forward and signed the tee-total. 1834 Preston Temp. Adv. Nov. 83/2 There is no remedy for the sufferings of the working classes except joining the tee-total. a1843 J. Stewart Sketches Sc. Char. (1857) 149 (E.D.D.) I maun join the Teetotal. 1845 B. Disraeli Sybil I. ii. x. 212 Glass of water for the Secretary of the Mowbray Temperance and Teatotal. 2. A total abstainer; a teetotaller. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > abstention from drinking > [noun] > total abstinence > total abstainer water-drinker1440 abstainerc1475 Rechabite1637 drink-watera1641 hydropotist1678 hydropot1727 teetotal1834 teetotaller1834 teetotalist1840 Washingtonian1842 Good Templar1853 teetotalleress1854 blue-ribbonist1858 nephalist1861 total abstainer1862 blue-ribbonite1867 totec1870 Templar1874 blue ribboner1878 total abstinent1882 water butt1882 white ribboner1886 non-drinker1910 pioneer1912 T.T.1922 1834 Preston Temp. Adv. May 38/1 The number of members is about 196: the tee-totals about 30. 1855 O. W. Holmes Poems 200 Statesmen grow merry, lean attorneys laugh, And weak teetotals warm to half and half. Derivatives teeˈtotal v. (intransitive) to practise or advocate total abstinence. ΘΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > abstention from drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > totally abstain from alcohol abstain1784 to put (also keep) in the pin1827 to take (also sign, keep) the pledge1833 teetotal1883 to take the blue ribbon1884 teetotalize1898 1883 Cambr. Staircase iii. 37 We all indulge in intoxicants..except Westbury, who teetotals. teeˈtotalling adj. ΘΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > abstention from drinking > [adjective] > total abstinence water-drinking?1616 hydropotic1623 teetotal1834 teetotalling1839 water wagon1889 on the wagon1906 temperance1907 pussyfoot1919 bone-dry1920 T.T.1922 1839 Brit. Critic No. 50. 267 The case of Timothy..is..made a text for ‘tee-totalling’ discourses. 1843 Fraser's Mag. 27 408 The regular..religious and teetotalling artisan. 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