Meaning of water drinker | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Someone who drinks water, especially in preference to alcoholic drinks; a teetotaler.
2. A member of an early Christian sect which drank water instead of wine during the Eucharist.
   obsolete
3. Someone who drinks the waters at a spa.
   historical

Examples

“Could not resist Metcalfe's fine dishes and wines. Sir Joshua began to be a water-drinker.”

“Ben Franklin, an American and a water drinker, found his fellow workers at Watts's printing house ‘great guzzlers of beer’ around 1725.”

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