英语词汇-oholic的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	-oholic
词源	-oholic word-forming element abstracted from alcoholic (q.v.); also see -aholic, which has tended to replace it in word formation. Entries linking to -oholic alcoholic adj. 1790, "of or pertaining to alcohol;" see alcohol + -ic. The meaning "caused by drunkenness" is attested by 1872; the meaning "habitually drunk" by 1910. The noun sense of "one who is addicted to drinking in excess, chronic drunkard, old rounder" is recorded from 1891; an earlier term for one was alcoholist (1877 in clinical writing, earlier in temperance literature this word simply meant "a drinker of alcohol"). Alcoholics Anonymous was founded 1935 in Akron, Ohio, U.S. -aholic word-forming element abstracted from alcoholic; first in sugarholic (1965), foodoholic (sic, 1965); later in workaholic (1968), golfaholic (1971), chocoholic (1971), and shopaholic (1984). updated on September 11, 2012
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