- workaholic [1947] 'a person addicted to working', tobaccoholic [1954], milka-holic [1955], sugarholic [1955], cake-aholic [1957], chocoholic [1961] 'a person who is addicted to or very fond of chocolate', foodaholic [1965] 'a compulsive eater', golfaholic [1971], carboholic [1973], computerholic [1977], shopaholic [1977] 'a compulsive shopper', newsaholic [1979], spendaholic [1982], cruise-oholic [1989], sexaholic [1994], and rage-aholic [2008] (OED).
workaholic, cake-aholic, chocoholic, foodaholic, etc.
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His progress was charted in a very funny documentary, the title of which, despite his heroic efforts, just about sums up
foodaholic Anthony's likelihood of success...
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At the time she weighed in at 30 stone and was a self-confessed "
foodaholic".
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London, June 17 (ANI): Gordon Ramsay has revealed that though his friend Victoria Beckham has one of the most enviable figures, the would-be-mother is a big
foodaholic.
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She'll be doing a diet version of Wife Swap with Philippa, a self-confessed
foodaholic who doesn't look like she's ever missed a meal.
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Rosie O'Sullivan - a self-confessed "
foodaholic" - lost more than half her body weight after having surgery to win her battle of the bulge.
I LOST 16 STONE! Britain's Got Talent star Rosie O'Sullivan:
"I was a
foodaholic. I ate anything I could lay my hands on.
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"We were
foodaholics. We don't drink, we don't smoke, we don't do drugs but we love food," says Mary, who runs a social club with Mark.
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Food entrepreneur and founder of
Foodaholics, Kishi Arora, who has spent sleepless nights baking pink and majenta cakes on demand for women either by them or their boyfriends, says, " Yes, pink is feminine.
THE COLOUR PINK
Along with the 'writers, painters, actors, producers, academics, the well-off, the
foodaholics, gays and greenies' of Fitzroy, the 'impoverished' are mentioned simply in order to legitimate the contemporary Fitzroy cliche that it is 'an incredibly diverse local community'.
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Lately we've been hearing about sexaholics, or sex addicts; and
foodaholics. I don't know if talkaholic will catch on or not, but it fits into the genre.
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