[Ads-l] Antedating of "chocaholic"

[Steven Losie]

CHOCAHOLIC (OED3, 11 Jan 1961)

[begin quote]
The following, from the same files, is designed for real "chocaholics," a
sisterhood of which we've long been a member. Declared to be the "gooeyest"
possible dessert for this tribe, it's called fudge pie.
[end quote]

Source: Johnson City Press-Chronicle (Johnson City, Tennessee), 17 March
1960, p.16, col.3 (newspapers.com)
Article title: Counter-Wise with Polly

Note that the original article spells it as "choca-holics" but that may be
the result of the line break in the original, so I reproduced the quote
above without the hyphen.

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