-aholicsuffix

Primary stress is attracted to the second syllable of this suffix and vowels may be reduced accordingly.

Forms: 1900s– -aholic, 1900s– -holic (especially after a vowel), 1900s– -oholic.

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: alcoholic n.

Etymology: < -oholic (in alcoholic n.), with respelling as -aholic reflecting the reduced pronunciation of the linking vowel.Attested in a number of formations from the mid 20th cent. onwards.

Originally U.S.

Forming nouns (often humorous ad hoc formations) denoting a person who appears to be addicted to the thing, activity, etc., expressed by the first element, as computerholic, newsaholic, spendaholic, etc.See also chocoholic n., foodaholic n., shopaholic n., workaholic n.

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1954 Daily Mail (Charleston, W. Virginia) 28 Mar. 37 I am a confirmed ‘tobaccoholic’. That's like an alcoholic, only it ain't alcohol.

1955 Ada (Okla.) Weekly News 14 Apr. 4 A sugarholic will do anything to reduce, except give up chocolate bars, rich desserts, and cream in coffee plus two lumps of sugar.

1955 Hutchinson (Kansas) News-Herald 28 Dec. 14 We must face it. Our daughter, age two, is a ‘milkaholic’.

1957 Redbook Oct. 107/3 I became a cake-aholic.

1965 P. Wyden Overweight Society vi. 106 I was a sugarholic.

1971 Southern Living May 29/1 Goldstein, you see, is a ‘golfaholic’.

1973 Times 19 Mar. 7/1 The organization called Weightwatchers describes..its members as carboholics.

1977 New Scientist 19 May 405 There are clearly more ‘computerholics’ in Britain than many in the business ever imagined.

1979 Daily Tel. 27 Oct. 15/8 All journalists, in some degree, are newsaholics.

1982 Chicago Sun-Times 31 Aug. 37 The guy is a womanizer, a spend-a-holic, uses dope and is strictly no good.

1989 Cruise Trav. Sept. 59/2 A confessed ‘cruise-oholic’ who has traversed the Atlantic four times.

1994 A. Codrescu Zombification (1995) vii. 273 Everybody is an ‘olic’ of some kind, alcoholic, sexaholic, workaholic, support-groupaholic.

2008 R. Reisfeld Rehab viii. 66 You called him a rage-aholic.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	-aholic
释义	-aholicsuffix Primary stress is attracted to the second syllable of this suffix and vowels may be reduced accordingly. Forms: 1900s– -aholic, 1900s– -holic (especially after a vowel), 1900s– -oholic. Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: alcoholic n. Etymology: < -oholic (in alcoholic n.), with respelling as -aholic reflecting the reduced pronunciation of the linking vowel.Attested in a number of formations from the mid 20th cent. onwards. Originally U.S. Forming nouns (often humorous ad hoc formations) denoting a person who appears to be addicted to the thing, activity, etc., expressed by the first element, as computerholic, newsaholic, spendaholic, etc.See also chocoholic n., foodaholic n., shopaholic n., workaholic n. ΚΠ 1954 Daily Mail (Charleston, W. Virginia) 28 Mar. 37 I am a confirmed ‘tobaccoholic’. That's like an alcoholic, only it ain't alcohol. 1955 Ada (Okla.) Weekly News 14 Apr. 4 A sugarholic will do anything to reduce, except give up chocolate bars, rich desserts, and cream in coffee plus two lumps of sugar. 1955 Hutchinson (Kansas) News-Herald 28 Dec. 14 We must face it. Our daughter, age two, is a ‘milkaholic’. 1957 Redbook Oct. 107/3 I became a cake-aholic. 1965 P. Wyden Overweight Society vi. 106 I was a sugarholic. 1971 Southern Living May 29/1 Goldstein, you see, is a ‘golfaholic’. 1973 Times 19 Mar. 7/1 The organization called Weightwatchers describes..its members as carboholics. 1977 New Scientist 19 May 405 There are clearly more ‘computerholics’ in Britain than many in the business ever imagined. 1979 Daily Tel. 27 Oct. 15/8 All journalists, in some degree, are newsaholics. 1982 Chicago Sun-Times 31 Aug. 37 The guy is a womanizer, a spend-a-holic, uses dope and is strictly no good. 1989 Cruise Trav. Sept. 59/2 A confessed ‘cruise-oholic’ who has traversed the Atlantic four times. 1994 A. Codrescu Zombification (1995) vii. 273 Everybody is an ‘olic’ of some kind, alcoholic, sexaholic, workaholic, support-groupaholic. 2008 R. Reisfeld Rehab viii. 66 You called him a rage-aholic. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < suffix1954
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