TEETOTAL

PRONUNCIATION: (tee-TOH-tuhl)

MEANING: adjective:
1. Practicing abstinence from alcohol.
2. Total; absolute.

ETYMOLOGY: Coined by Richard Turner of Preston, England, in a speech calling for total abstinence, apparently as an emphatic form of the word total. Earliest documented use: 1833.
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TWEETOTAL - utterly and unbearably cute, dainty, and quaint

TEYTOTAL - eight (the number of detective stories published by Elizabeth Mackintosh under her pseudonym)

FEE TO TAL - amount for Soviet chess champion Mikhial to play