Chocoholic

[Fred Shapiro]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2000 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

>      Fred Shapiro did "workaholic," but I don't have his "chocoholic" handy.

Philip Kolin, "The Pseudo-Suffix -oholic," American Speech 54 (1979):
74-76, gives a 1968 citation for _chocoholic_.  This may be the same cite
that Merriam-Webster uses for its dating.  I used to think that
_chocoholic_ was the first -ohlic coinage, but the RHHDAS has _sexoholic_
in 1963 and _New Yorkoholic_ (sorry, Barry!) in 1964.


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