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teetotal

adjective
🔊/ˌtiːˈtəʊtl/
🔊/ˌtiːˈtəʊtl/
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  1. never drinking alcohol从不饮酒的；滴酒不沾的
    • He's strictly teetotal.他绝对是滴酒不沾。🔊🔊
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    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
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    adverb
    • strictly
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    Word Originmid 19th cent.: 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.