Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

teetotaling

/ˈtitoʊtəlɪŋ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.07 in modern English

Syllables: tee-to-tal-ing
IPA: /ˈtitoʊtəlɪŋ/

12

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Abstaining from alcohol.

American usage

verb

present participle of teetotal

Example Sentences

"Most were some variation of the girl-whistling, boyish, movie kind, but a few were serious, teetotalling and religious."
"Their teetotalling, absolutist frame of mind, along with its associated attitudes, simply closed off the option to drink."
"Insull was English, from an earnest, teetotalling family of modest means. He had learned shorthand and was advancing nicely in a London firm of auctioneers ..."
"The name of this spacious restaurant and lounge is an ironic reference [to] the teetotaling Andrew J. Volstead, the Minnesota congressman who sponsored the act enforcing Prohibition in 1919."

Etymology

From teetotal + -ing.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈtitoʊtəlɪŋ/
British English: /ˈtiːtəʊtəlɪŋ/

Usage

American usage

Inflected Forms

teetotalling (alternative, UK)

Synonyms

teetotalism

Questions

How do you pronounce teetotaling?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈtitoʊtəlɪŋ/.
What does teetotaling mean?: Abstaining from alcohol.
Where does teetotaling come from?: From teetotal + -ing.

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