-aholic

-aholic abstracted from ALCOHOLIC (Cf. alcoholic); first in sugarholic (1965), foodoholic (sic., 1965); later in workaholic (1968), golfaholic (1971), chocoholic (1971), and shopaholic (1984).

Etymology dictionary. 2014.

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