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dipsomania

/dip-suh-mey-nee-uh, -soh-/US // ˌdɪp səˈmeɪ ni ə, -soʊ- //UK // (ˌdɪpsəʊˈmeɪnɪə) //

泡妞狂魔,泡澡狂,泡澡狂热症,泡澡狂魔

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an irresistible, typically periodic craving for alcoholic drinks.

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Examples

  • What compensation dipsomania gave him I know not, but that he did get some kind of wild joy I am quite sure.

  • I dislike to hear drunkenness called dipsomania, as I so often do; but I do not therefore say that dipsomania is only drunkenness.

  • Dr. Curtis did not mean by religio-mania religious appreciation; neither did he mean by dipsomania, temperate use of stimulants.

  • Probably, with the low cunning and fallacious reasoning of dipsomania, he had pouched her savings with that very thought in mind.

  • Speaking of intemperance in relation to crime, he states that: 'Brain-workers provide the most hopeless cases of dipsomania.