chocoholic

English

Etymology tree

Classical Nahuatl chocolātlbor.

Spanish chocolatebor.

English chocolate

Akkadian 𒎎𒋆𒁉𒍣𒁕 (guḫlum)bor.

Aramaic כוחלא (kuḥlā)bor.

Arabic كُحْل (kuḥl)

Andalusian Arabic اَلْكُحُول (al-kuḥūl)bor.

Medieval Latin alcoholder.

Middle English alcofol

English alcohol

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Indo-European *-ikos

Proto-Italic *-ikos

Latin -icuslbor.

Old French -iquebor.

Middle English -ik

English -ic

English alcoholic

English -holic

English chocoholic

chocoholic (plural chocoholics)

(informal) Someone who has such a liking for chocolate that they appear to be addicted to it.
Synonyms: (rare) chocolatoholic, chocomaniac
- 1983, Betty Fussell, Masters of American Cookery, University of Nebraska Press, published 2005, →ISBN, part 3, 367:
  Chocoholics are confessing at the rate of the nuns of Loudon to demonic possession.

chocolate addict

chocoholic (comparative more chocoholic, superlative most chocoholic)

Addicted or seemingly addicted to chocolate; characteristic of a chocoholic.
- 2008 February 16, Jess Cartner-Morley, “The family challenge”, in The Guardian:
  At tonight’s table, there are two couples, both here because the man had bought the session for his chocoholic partner as a present […]
- 2014, Suzanne Loudermilk Haughey, “What’s In a Name?” baltimoremagazine.net, 5 June, 2014,^[1]
  A wedge of chocolate-ganache cake with Kahlua and whipped cream will satisfy any chocoholic cravings.