aquaholic

English

Etymology

aqua +‎ -holic

Pronunciation
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Adjective

aquaholic (comparative more aquaholic, superlative most aquaholic)

  1. Addicted to water.
  2. Of a place, or person, that consumes more than the average amount of water.
    • 1963, Roma K. McNickle, Water: Development, Utilization, Conservation‎, page 177:
      It is aquaholic, chronically so. With one-fifth as much water as the East, its withdrawal depletions are four times as great.

Noun

aquaholic (plural aquaholics)

  1. A person who is addicted to consuming too much water.
    • 2008 October 31, Angela Balakrishnan, “Man addicted to water dies by drinking from hosepipe”, in The Guardian.co.uk‎:
      Andrew Else was an aquaholic for 30 years, an inquest into his death heard. Yesterday his brother, Stephen, said he should not have been left alone near free-flowing water.
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