chocoholic

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Classical Nahuatl chocolatlbor.

Spanish chocolatebor.

English chocolate

Middle English alcofol

English alcohol

Proto-Italic *-kos

Latin -cus

Latin -icuslbor.

Old French -iquebor.

Middle English -ik

English -ic

English alcoholic

English -holic

English chocoholic

From chocolate +‎ -holic.

Noun

chocoholic (plural chocoholics)

1. Someone who has such a liking for chocolate that they appear to be addicted to it.

   Synonym: chocomaniac

   • 1983, Betty Fussell, Masters of American Cookery, University of Nebraska Press, published 2005, →ISBN, part 3, 367:

     Chocoholics are confessing at the rate of the nuns of Loudon to demonic possession.

Related terms

• chocoholism

Translations

chocolate addict

French: chocoholique (fr) m or f Portuguese: chocólatra (pt)

Adjective

chocoholic (comparative more chocoholic, superlative most chocoholic)

1. Addicted or seemingly addicted to chocolate; characteristic of a chocoholic.
   • 2008 February 16, Jess Cartner-Morley, “The family challenge”, in The Guardian:

     At tonight’s table, there are two couples, both here because the man had bought the session for his chocoholic partner as a present […]

   • 2014, Suzanne Loudermilk Haughey, “What’s In a Name?” baltimoremagazine.net, 5 June, 2014,

     A wedge of chocolate-ganache cake with Kahlua and whipped cream will satisfy any chocoholic cravings.

See also

• chocoholic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia