aquaholic

English

Etymology

aqua +‎ -holic

Adjective

aquaholic (comparative more aquaholic, superlative most aquaholic)

  1. Addicted to water.
  2. Of a place, or person, that consumes more than the average amount of water.
    • 1963 Water: Development, Utilization, Conservation, by Roma K. McNickle. p.177
      It is aquaholic, chronically so. With one-fifth as much water as the East, its withdrawal depletions are four times as great.

Noun

aquaholic (plural aquaholics)

  1. A person who is addicted to consuming too much water.
    • 2008 Oct 31, Man addicted to water dies by drinking from hosepipe, by Angela Balakrishnan in The Guardian.co.uk
      Andrew Else was an aquaholic for 30 years, an inquest into his death heard. Yesterday his brother, Stephen, said he should not have been left alone near free-flowing water.
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