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[druhng-kerd] Pronunciation Key
[druhng-kerd] Pronunciation Key –noun
| a person who is habitually or frequently drunk. |
—Synonyms toper, sot, tippler, drinker. Drunkard and inebriate are terms for a person who drinks hard liquors habitually. Drunkard connotes willful indulgence to excess. Inebriate is a slightly more formal term than drunkard. Dipsomaniac is the term for a person who, because of some psychological or physiological illness, has an irresistible craving for liquor. The dipsomaniac is popularly called an alcoholic.
—Antonyms teetotaler.
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| drunk·ard
(drŭng'kərd) Pronunciation Key
n. One who is habitually drunk. |
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Drunkard
Drunk"ard\, n. [Drunk + -ard.] One who habitually drinks strong liquors immoderately; one whose habit it is to get drunk; a toper; a sot. The drunkard and glutton shall come to poverty. -- Prov. xxiii. 21.
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