chocoholic

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noun

Someone who has such a liking for chocolate that they appear to be addicted to it.

UncommonScrabble 22

Meanings

nounchocoholic (plural chocoholics)

plural chocoholics

  1. informalSomeone who has such a liking for chocolate that they appear to be addicted to it.

    Chocoholics are confessing at the rate of the nuns of Loudon to demonic possession.

    1983, Betty Fussell, Masters of American Cookery, University of Nebraska Press, published 2005, →ISBN, part 3, 367

    Synonyms: chocolatoholic, chocomaniac

adjectivechocoholic (comparative more chocoholic, superlative most chocoholic)

comparative more chocoholic · superlative most chocoholic

  1. Addicted or seemingly addicted to chocolate; characteristic of a chocoholic.

    2014, Suzanne Loudermilk Haughey, “What’s In a Name?” baltimoremagazine.net, 5 June, 2014, A wedge of chocolate-ganache cake with Kahlua and whipped cream will satisfy any chocoholic cravings.

    1 more example

    At tonight’s table, there are two couples, both here because the man had bought the session for his chocoholic partner as a present […]

    2008 February 16, Jess Cartner-Morley, “The family challenge”, in The Guardian

Synonyms & antonyms

nounSomeone who has such a liking for chocolate that they appear to be addicted to it.

Origin

  1. Classical Nahuatlchocolāt
  2. Spanishchocolate
  3. Englishchocolate
  4. Akkadian𒎎𒋆𒁉𒍣𒁕 (guḫlum)
  5. Aramaicכוחלא (kuḥlā)
  6. Arabicكُحْل (kuḥl)
  7. Andalusian Arabicكُحُول (kuḥūl)
  8. Medieval Latinalcoho
  9. Middle Englishalcofol
  10. Englishalcohol
  11. Englishalcoholic
  12. Englishchocoholic

From choco(late) + -holic.

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Translations

French chocoholique
  • chocoholiquechocolate addict
Portuguese chocólatra
  • chocólatrachocolate addict
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