Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An insatiable desire for wine or other intoxicating liquors; dipsomania.
- noun Same as
delirium tremens (which see, underdelirium ).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Delirium tremens.
- noun Dipsomania.
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- noun
dipsomania
Etymologies
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oeno- + -mania, from Ancient Greek: οἶνος (oinos, "wine") combined with μανία (mania, "insanity").
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Obsession or craze for wine. (from Phrontistery)
May 24, 2008