Alcoholic vs Tipple - What's the difference?
alcoholic | tipple |
A person addicted to alcohol.
* - Alcoholic
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= One who abuses alcohol.
Of or pertaining to alcohol.
Having more than a trace amount of alcohol in its contents.
Of, pertaining to, or affected by alcoholism
An area near the entrance of mines which is used to load and unload coal.
(rail transport) An apparatus for unloading railroad freight cars by tipping them; the place where this is done.
(slang) Any alcoholic drink.
To sell alcoholic liquor by retail.
To drink too much alcohol.
To drink alcohol regularly or habitually, but not to excess.
* Macaulay
To put up (hay, etc.) in bundles in order to dry it.
As nouns the difference between alcoholic and tipple
is that alcoholic is a person addicted to alcohol while tipple is an area near the entrance of mines which is used to load and unload coal.As a adjective alcoholic
is of or pertaining to alcohol.As a verb tipple is
to sell alcoholic liquor by retail.alcoholic
English
Noun
(en noun)- Don't you know you've got your daddy's eyes
- Daddy was an alcoholic
Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.}}
Synonyms
* dipsomaniac, drunkardAntonyms
* teetotaler, on the wagonSee also
*Adjective
(en adjective)- He ordered an alcoholic beverage.
- The oysters were sour, and excessively alcoholic .
Antonyms
* nonalcoholicDerived terms
* Alcoholics Anonymous ----tipple
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (alcoholic drink) seeVerb
(tippl)- Few of those who were summoned left their homes, and those few generally found it more agreeable to tipple in alehouses than to pace the streets.