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Origin
-aholic
a combining form extracted from
alcoholic,
occurring as the final element in compounds, often facetious nonce words, with the sense “a person who has an addiction to or obsession with some
object
or activity”:
workaholic; chargeaholic.
Also,
-holic.
Origin:
by extraction, with
a
replacing
o
as the spelling of the unstressed vowel
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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
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Word Origin & History
-aholic
abstracted from alcoholic first in sugarholic (1965), later in workaholic (1968), golfaholic (1971), chocoholic (1976), and shopaholic (1984).
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