cold-water man

cold-water man
   Scottish
   a person who drinks no intoxicants
   The use is perhaps obsolete, in a society where, for some, abstinence is taboo:
    'Dae ye drink?' He's a cauld-water man. (J. F. S. Gordon, 1880)

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