water drinker
noun1
Someone who drinks water, especially in preference to alcoholic drinks; a teetotaler.
- Could not resist Metcalfe's fine dishes and wines. Sir Joshua began to be a water-drinker.1789, James Boswell, edited by Danziger & Brady, Boswell: The Great Biographer, Yale, published 1989, page 21:
- Ben Franklin, an American and a water drinker, found his fellow workers at Watts's printing house ‘great guzzlers of beer’ around 1725.2012, Jerry White, London in the Eighteenth Century, Bodley Head, published 2017, page 326:
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Christianity Obsolete A member of an early Christian sect which drank water instead of wine during the Eucharist.
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Historical Someone who drinks the waters at a spa.