I have heard abstemic...????
Is that even a word?
2007-01-22 13:34:37 · 21 answers · asked by AB 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Beer, Wine & Spirits
your thinking of alcohol abstainer or a teatotaler. or are you thinking of abstemic as in ABSTEMIOUS meaning sparingly
2007-01-22 13:42:14 · answer #1 · answered by ben e 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Teatotaler is correct, as a noun.
Temperate would be correct as an adjective.
There are other terms, but I believe these are the most proper ones. I have never heard of the term you use.
2007-01-22 21:40:31 · answer #2 · answered by great gig in the sky 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes it is said that someone abstains from drinking but usually just called a non drinker.
2007-01-22 21:42:38 · answer #3 · answered by soxy190 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you are using some fractured form of the word abstain. You might have heard them say abstinence and you thought they said what you wrote.
2007-01-22 21:48:26 · answer #4 · answered by Goyo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The designated driver. Because the rest of us don't abstain from drinking! And we gotta get home somehow.
2007-01-22 21:58:50 · answer #5 · answered by nikirr 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people call em teetotalers from the prohibition era I think.
2007-01-22 21:40:12 · answer #6 · answered by gruntman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have always heard the word teetotaler
2007-01-22 21:37:34 · answer #7 · answered by donnabellekc 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An alcoholic
2007-01-22 23:56:48 · answer #8 · answered by bolt13carl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't sound like a word. Now "teatotaller", that's a word...
2007-01-22 21:38:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well the scrabble dictionary has never heard of such a word....it could be slang
2007-01-22 21:41:23 · answer #10 · answered by tina1rules 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋