Plural of person, from the Greek dipses dipsa, thirst and hobby hobbies, madness, dementia. As they say colleagues, alcoholic, who has an insatiable thirst and eagerness to obsessive compulsive disorder by drinking alcoholic beverages. The person is a mentally ill which we vulgarly call drunk. "What the poor it is drunkenness, in the rich is dipsomania". In this, there are also social classes, although in recent times it hides to see if the poor end up losing his conscience.
