Definition of "teetotaling" [teetotaling]

• Abstaining from alcohol (adjective)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "During a speech in 2003, she announced that "these days I am a teetotaling, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist.""
• ""When the Eighteenth Amendment was passed I earnestly hoped—with a host of advocates of temperance—that it would be generally supported by public opinion" and, he wrote, that teetotaling would eventually take hold."
• "Her son was killed in World War II; she hasn't seen her daughter or her grandchildren in eight months, since she quarreled with her teetotaling son-in-law."