aquaholic

English

Etymology

From aqua +‎ -holic.

Pronunciation

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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, Roma K. McNickle, Water: Development, Utilization, Conservation‎^[1], page 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 October 31, Angela Balakrishnan, “Man addicted to water dies by drinking from hosepipe”, in The Guardian.co.uk‎^[2]:

     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.