teetotal
adjective
[ tiːˈtəʊt(ə)l ]
• choosing or characterized by abstinence from alcohol.
• "a teetotal lifestyle"
Origin:
mid 19th century: emphatic extension of total, apparently first used by Richard Turner, a worker from Preston, in a speech (1833) urging total abstinence from all alcohol, rather than mere abstinence from spirits, advocated by some early temperance reformers.
