aquaholic

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who is addicted to consuming too much water.
    — 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. Addicted to water.
  2. Of a place, or person, that consumes more than the average amount of water.
    — It is aquaholic, chronically so. With one-fifth as much water as the East, its withdrawal depletions are four times as great.

词形变化

more aquaholic comparative most aquaholic superlative aquaholics plural

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ékʷeh₂
Proto-Italic *akʷā
Latin aquabor.
Middle English aqua
English aqua-
Akkadian 𒎎𒋆𒁉𒍣𒁕 (guḫlum)bor.
Aramaic כוחלא (kuḥlā)bor.
Arabic كُحْل (kuḥl)
Andalusian Arabic اَلْكُحُول (al-kuḥūl)bor.
Medieval Latin alcoholder.
Middle English alcofol
English alcohol
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English alcoholic
English -holic
English aquaholic
From aqua- + -holic.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ékʷeh₂
Proto-Italic *akʷā
Latin aquabor.
Middle English aqua
English aqua-
Akkadian 𒎎𒋆𒁉𒍣𒁕 (guḫlum)bor.
Aramaic כוחלא (kuḥlā)bor.
Arabic كُحْل (kuḥl)
Andalusian Arabic اَلْكُحُول (al-kuḥūl)bor.
Medieval Latin alcoholder.
Middle English alcofol
English alcohol
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English alcoholic
English -holic
English aquaholic
From aqua- + -holic.
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