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View synonyms for -aholic

-aholic

  1. a combining form extracted from alcoholic, occurring as the final element in compounds, often facetious nonce words, with the sense “a person who has an addiction to or obsession with some object or activity”:

    workaholic; chargeaholic.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of -aholic1

By extraction, with a replacing o as the spelling of the unstressed vowel

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