tee-totalとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˌtiːˈtəʊtəl/

形容詞

teetotal (comparative more teetotal, superlative most teetotal)

1. Abstinent from alcohol; never drinking alcohol.

   Synonyms: on the wagon, straightedge

   • [1846], Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (contributor), Jamaica, Enslaved and Free, →OCLC, page 88:

     There is absolutely a teetotal society here in the heart of the mountains, and some quarrelsome drunkards have become reformed!

   • 1960, J. E. Macdonnell, Don't Gimme the Ships, Melbourne: Horwitz Publications, page 65:

     ‘He’s teetotal. Don’t touch a drop.’

2. Opposed to the drinking of alcohol.
3. (of a beverage) Containing no alcohol.
4. (dated, emphatic) Total.
   • 1858, Samuel Putnam Avery, The Harp of a Thousand Strings: Or, Laughter for a Lifetime, page 331:

     That's a teetotal lie.

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名詞

teetotal (plural teetotals)

1. One who abstains from drinking alcohol.

   Synonyms: teetotaler, pioneer

   Antonyms: alcoholic, dipsomaniac, drunkard; see also Thesaurus:drunkard

   • 2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 12, in Small Island‎, London: Review, page 137:

     Hubert is trying to persuade James, a strict Presbyterian and teetotal, to come into the pub.

動詞

teetotal (third-person singular simple present teetotals, present participle (US) teetotaling or (UK) teetotalling, simple past and past participle (US) teetotaled or (UK) teetotalled)

1. (intransitive, uncommon) To advocate or practice the total abstinence from alcohol.

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Further reading

• teetotalism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia