-aholic
suff.（后缀）
语源
suff.（后缀）
- One that is addicted to or compulsively in need of:
…迷，…狂：沉湎于…的人或有…癖好的人：
workaholic.
工作狂
语源
- From (alc)oholic
源自 (alc)oholic
-aholic
Word Origin
1
a combining form extracted from alcoholic, occurring as the final element in compounds, often facetious nonce words, with the sense “a person who has an addiction to or obsession with some object or activity”:
workaholic; chargeaholic.
Also, -holic.
Origin
by extraction, with a replacing o as the spelling of the unstressed vowel
Related Words
- -oholic
- foodaholic
- workaholic
-aholica suffix indicating an addiction to a specified substance, activity, interest, etc., as in workaholic.
Also, -holic.
-aholic
noun combining form
also -oholic
workaholic
2. one who likes (something) to excess
chocoholic
noun combining form
also -oholic
ETYMOLOGY alcoholic
1. one who feels compulsively the need to (do something)workaholic
2. one who likes (something) to excess
chocoholic
-aholic
（亦作-oholic）
suffix
- denoting a person addicted to something表示“…迷”, “…狂”：
-
shopaholic
workaholic.
词源
on the pattern of （alc）oholic.
1965 P. Wyden Overweight Society vi. 106,I was a sugarholic{ddd}Mom kept saying, ‘You eat your spinach and I'll give you a piece of candy.’
1971 Southern Living May 29/1 Donald Goldstein..probably knows more manufacturers personally than Porter and other club manufacturers. Goldstein, you see, is a ‘golfaholic’.
1972 Time 24 July 53/1 Thousands of men were on it consistently enough to be dubbed ‘hashaholics’ by their buddies.
1973 Times 19 Mar. 7/1 The organization called Weightwatchers describes..its members as carboholics.
1974 Washington Post 2 Dec. a25/1 Until Thanksgiving Day, I had considered myself just another enthusiastic fan of pro football, not an abuser, a footballaholic.
1977 New Scientist 19 May 405 There are clearly more ‘computerholics’ in Britain than many in the business ever imagined.
1979 Daily Tel. 27 Oct. 15/8All journalists, in some degree, are newsaholics.
1982 Chicago Sun-Times 31 Aug. 37 The guy is a womanizer, a spend-a-holic, uses dope and is strictly no good.
1985 N.Y. Times 13 Jan. 14/5Barbara Shepherd, owner and manager of Book Tree,..said she was a ‘bookaholic’.
-aholic
word-forming element abstracted from alcoholic; first in sugarholic (1965), foodoholic (sic., 1965); later in workaholic (1968), golfaholic (1971), chocoholic (1971), and shopaholic (1984).
☞ -aholic, -oholic
ORIGIN: from alcoholic noun .
-aholic
combining form. a person who is obsessed with or addicted to something; a _____ addict:
Foodaholic = a person who is obsessed with food or eating. I had considered myself just another enthusiastic fan of pro football, not an abuser, a footballaholic(Washington Post).
[abstracted from workaholic]
-aholic
noun combining form
or -oholic\-əˈhȯlik, -ˈhäl-\
(-s)
Etymology: alcoholic
1. : one who feels compulsively the need to (do something)
< shopaholic >
< winaholic >
2. : one who likes (something) to excess
< golfaholic >
or -oholic
1.
< shopaholic >
< winaholic >
2.
< golfaholic >
-aholic
Suffix
- Alternative form of -holic
Derived terms
English words suffixed with -aholic