Dipsomaniac vs Soak - What's the difference?
dipsomaniac | soak |
One with a morbid paroxysmal craving for alcohol; an alcoholic.
A persistently drunken person; a drunkard.
(label) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
* Bible, (w) xxiv. 7
(label) To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
(label) To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
(label) To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up )
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, chapter=4, title= To drink intemperately or gluttonously.
(label) To heat a metal before shaping it.
To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.
(label) To absorb; to drain.
An immersion in water etc.
* "After the climb, I had a nice long soak in a bath."
(slang, British) A drunkard.
(Australia) A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain.
* 1985 , (Peter Carey), Illywhacker , Faber & Faber 2003, p. 38:
As nouns the difference between dipsomaniac and soak
is that dipsomaniac is one with a morbid paroxysmal craving for alcohol; an alcoholic while soak is an immersion in water etc.As a verb soak is
(label) to be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.dipsomaniac
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* alcoholic * dipso * drunkard * sot * lushAntonyms
* abstain * teetotal * temperance * on the wagonsoak
English
Verb
(en verb)- Their land shall be soaked with blood.
- The rivulet beneath soaked its way obscurely through wreaths of snow.
F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.}}
Noun
(en noun)- I set off early to walk along the Melbourne Road where, one of the punters had told me, there was a soak with plenty of frogs in it.
