coffeeholism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Alcoholics may be somewhat related to sugarholics who can’t stop eating sugar, to coffeeholics who can’t stop with one cup of coffee, or smokers who find that one cigarette leads to another. […] You will soon learn that sugarholism and or coffeeholism can be caused by, or be the outgrowth of, another malfunctioning gland, the pancreas, and what to do about it."
- "I wonder how many parents unwittingly have sown the seeds of coffeeholism in their kids by serving them really milked-down coffee at a very early age? My officemate and I, both coffee fiends, had the same experience as tots (4 or 5 years old)."
Etymology
Etymology tree Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa)bor. Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve)bor. Italian caffèbor. Dutch koffiebor. English coffee Akkadian 𒎎𒋆𒁉𒍣𒁕 (guḫlum)bor. Aramaic כוחלא (kuḥlā)bor. Arabic كُحْل (kuḥl) Andalusian Arabic كُحُول (kuḥūl)bor. Medieval Latin alcoholbor. Middle English alcofol English alcohol Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English alcoholism English -holism English coffeeholism From coffee + -holism.