unteetotal

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ teetotal.

Adjective

unteetotal (comparative more unteetotal, superlative most unteetotal)

1. Not teetotal.
   • 1840 November, “Something Mysterious”, in The New Monthly Magazine, volume LX, number CCXXXIX, page 373:

     Without the mopuses to pay for your call, the demand will be like Owen Glendower’s very unteetotal demand for “spirits from the vasty deep,” which, to the disappointment of thirsty souls in all time to come, most notoriously failed in producing the supply.

   • 1869 July 17, “English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases. […]”, in The Examiner and London Review, number 3,207, page 455, column 1:

     In fact water was as little liked for the inside as for the outside, or else how could they venture to perpetrate the unteetotal declaration, “Water breeds frogs in the belly, but wine kills worms.”

   • 1888 November 30, The Christian: […], number 983, London: Morgan & Scott, […], page 9:

     “Unchristian Teetotalers and Unteetotal Christians.”

   • 1923, F[rancis] Morton Howard, “A Matter of Advertisement”, in “Strictly Business”, New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Company, […], page 120:

     Mr. Clark breathed on Mr. Tridge a final cheery but unteetotal wish for his good luck; […]

   • 1937, George Shiels, “The Jailbird: A Comedy in Three Acts”, in The Passing Day: A Play in Six Scenes & The Jailbird: A Comedy in Three Acts, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, […], act I, scene I, page 150:

     He is middle-aged, of unteetotal aspect, and wears brown overalls.

   • 1954, John Moore, The White Sparrow, London, New York, N.Y., Sydney, N.S.W., Toronto, Ont.: White Lion Publishers Limited, published 1975, →ISBN, page 84:

     On these occasions, too, he would often come out with the most unteetotal quotations from his favourite Omar, about taking the daughter of the vine to spouse, or being merry with the fruitful grape,—“Only it isn’t the Grape, of course,” he would add hurriedly.

   • 2018, “Winners and losers”, in Matthew Engel, editor, WHAT Did You Say Stopped Play?: 25 Years of the Wisden Chronicle, Wisden, →ISBN, page 206:

     The vegan teetotaller Greg Chappell has fulfilled two-thirds of a promise to his very unvegan and unteetotal old team-mate Doug Walters. Chappell had said he would eat a steak, drink beer and smoke a cigarette if Walters managed to live until his sixtieth birthday – and he reached the milestone in 2005.