i didn’t believe futility closet so i went and looked up ‘theic, n’ in the OED and he is in fact right:OED gives ‘one addicted to immoderate tea-drinking, or who suffers from such excess; a tea-drunkard.’ (usage attested in 1886 Medical News (U.S.) XLIX. 305 “It is possible to be a �theic� by profession or a �theic� by passion.”
I am certainly a theic by passion and inclination.
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