chocoholic
English
Etymology
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Noun
chocoholic (plural chocoholics)
- Someone who has such a liking for chocolate that they appear to be addicted to it.
- Synonym: chocomaniac
- 1983, Betty Fussell, Masters of American Cookery, University of Nebraska Press, published 2005, →ISBN, part 3, 367:
- Chocoholics are confessing at the rate of the nuns of Loudon to demonic possession.
Related terms
Translations
chocolate addict
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Adjective
chocoholic (comparative more chocoholic, superlative most chocoholic)
- Addicted or seemingly addicted to chocolate; characteristic of a chocoholic.
- 2008 February 16, Jess Cartner-Morley, “The family challenge”, in The Guardian:
- At tonight’s table, there are two couples, both here because the man had bought the session for his chocoholic partner as a present […]
- 2014, Suzanne Loudermilk Haughey, “What’s In a Name?” baltimoremagazine.net, 5 June, 2014,[1]
- A wedge of chocolate-ganache cake with Kahlua and whipped cream will satisfy any chocoholic cravings.
See also
- chocoholic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia