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RedRose
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 Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 12:25 am Post subject: sexaholic |
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Today I watched a show called "Ugly Betty" in which there was a word I couldn't find in my dictionary: sexaholic
From the context, I guess this word means something like "sex addict", but what confused me was: why doesn't it exist in my dictionary? is it slang? what's its etymology?
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ad-miral
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| Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 7:20 am Post subject: |
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a workaholic is soemone who is crazy about working.
a sexaholic is someone who is crazy aobut having ...
I found in the urban dictionary:
http://www.urbandictionary.com
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sexahol
the combination of hormones, proteins, and other bodily chemicals (seratonin, epinephrine, etc.) that make sex a physically pleasurable act.
the reason people like sex is because if we didn't, the human race would die out from sexual apathy. sexahol is the biological reason why we don't.
I've got a huge term paper due, but I haven't got my sexahol fix in a while, so I"m hitting the clubs. |
sexaholic is the adjective form of the noun.
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RedRose
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| Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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thanks admiral.
Then I am a sitcomaholic  |
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Bob S.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 11:10 am Post subject: Re: sexaholic |
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| RedRose wrote: |
Today I watched a show called "Ugly Betty" in which there was a word I couldn't find in my dictionary: sexaholic
From the context, I guess this word means something like "sex addict", but what confused me was: why doesn't it exist in my dictionary? is it slang? what's its etymology? |
It is a kind of slang.
Originally we had the word "alcohol", and someone who was addicted to it was called an "alcoholic".
So in one of those twists of English, we started taking the "-oholic" part of "alcoholic" and sticking it on to the end of other words to show addiction. So you can talk about "sex-oholic", "chocoholic" (addicted to chocolate), "internet-oholic", and so on. "Sitcom-oholic" or simply "TV-oholic" works just fine.
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RedRose
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| Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 11:25 am Post subject: |
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Oh, it comes from alcoholic! it turns out that slang has more interesting etymology 
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Bob S.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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| RedRose wrote: |
Oh, it comes from alcoholic! it turns out that slang has more interesting etymology
Thanks, Bob. |
My pleasure. (From one ESL Caf�-oholic to another.  ) |
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iitimone7
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| Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 2:53 pm Post subject: ...aholics |
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| great new words, everyone! it made me laugh aloud today. iitimone7 |
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