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   teetotal

   /ˌtiːˈtəʊtl/

   adjective

   • 1. choosing or characterized by abstinence from alcohol: "a teetotal lifestyle"

   Word Origin mid 19th century: emphatic extension of total, apparently first used by Richard Turner, a worker from Preston, in a speech (1833) urging total abstinence from all alcohol, rather than mere abstinence from spirits, advocated by some early temperance reformers.

   Derivatives

   • 1. teetotalism noun

   Scrabble Points: 8

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