
ETYMOLOGY
from oeno- (relating to or resembling wine) + -philist (loving the person or thing denoted)
EXAMPLE
“… Are the Temperance men to be allowed to shout in the public places? are the Vegetarians to bellow ” Cabbage for ever?” and may we modest Œnophilists not sing the praises of our favourite plant? After the drinking of good Bordeaux wine, there is a point (I do not say a pint) at which men arrive, when all the generous faculties of the soul are awakened and in full vigour; when the wit brightens and breaks out in sudden flashes; when the intellects are keenest; when the pent up words and confined thoughts get a night-rule, and rush abroad and disport themselves; when the kindest affections come out and shake hands with mankind, and the timid Truth jumps up naked out of his well and proclaims himself to all the world. …”
From: Title: The Virginians
By William Makepeace Thackeray, 1859
PRONUNCIATION
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