chocoholic

chocoholic

English

Etymology

chocolate +‎ -holic.

Noun

chocoholic (plural chocoholics)

1. Someone who has such a liking for chocolate that they appear to be addicted to it.
   • 1983, Betty Fussell, Masters of American Cookery, University of Nebraska Press (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

Portuguese: chocólatra (pt)

Adjective

chocoholic (comparative more chocoholic, superlative most chocoholic)

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

     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