teetotaling

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English

Alternative forms

teetotalling (British)

Etymology

teetotal +‎ -ing

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtitoʊtəlɪŋ/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtiːtəʊtəlɪŋ/

Adjective

teetotaling (not comparable)

(US) Abstaining from alcohol.
- 1958, Vance Nye Bourjaily, The Violated: A Novel:
  Most were some variation of the girl-whistling, boyish, movie kind, but a few were serious, teetotalling and religious.
- 1988, Arnold M. Ludwig, Understanding the Alcoholic's Mind: Refocusing the Past:
  Their teetotalling, absolutist frame of mind, along with its associated attitudes, simply closed off the option to drink.
- 1976, Sheldon M. Novick, The Electric War: The Fight Over Nuclear Power:
  Insull was English, from an earnest, teetotalling family of modest means. He had learned shorthand and was advancing nicely in a London firm of auctioneers ...
- 2007 August 15, The New York Times, “Off the Menu”, in New York Times‎:
  The name of this spacious restaurant and lounge is an ironic reference [to] the teetotaling Andrew J. Volstead, the Minnesota congressman who sponsored the act enforcing Prohibition in 1919.

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