"A person whose liking for chocolate is jestingly likened to the
alcoholic's addictive craving for alcohol."
Context, as I keep telling Vadim, is everything.
Thank you.
This seemingly off-topic disucssion of what "chocoholic" means is
actually quite instructive. Living in an English-speaking country I
know that when native English speakers say "chocoholic" they mean
"someone who really likes chocolate." I know that they *do* *not*
mean "someone who is addicted to chocolate."
This agreed-upon usage of a word is what I refer to as "meaning," and
it is this information about English that lets me understand what
someone writing or speaking in English is trying to convey.
Finding a Wikipedia entry that doesn't match how people use the word
is not helpful. ...
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