Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Given to or marked by the consumption of alcoholic drink.
- adjective Very absorbent, as paper or soil.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the quality of absorbing or imbibing fluids or moisture; absorbent; spongy.
- Fond of drinking intoxicating liquors; addicted to drink; proceeding from or characterized by such tendency: as, bibulous propensities.
- Relating to drink or drinking: as, bibulous lore.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Readily imbibing fluids or moisture; spongy.
- adjective Inclined to drink; addicted to tippling.
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- adjective very
absorbent - adjective given to or marked by the
consumption ofalcohol
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- adjective given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol
Etymologies
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Examples
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The only nod to the bibulous was the Toll House Cocktail, a house-special from the same (now long-gone) Whitman, Mass., inn famous for its chocolate-chip cookies.
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The people in Taiwan are not bibulous, which is to their credit but an annoyance to us tourist lushes.
MLA K. A. Laity 2005
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There is an experiment, which seems to evince this venous absorption, which consists in the external application of a stimulus to the lips, as of vinegar, by which they become instantly pale; that is, the bibulous mouths of the veins by this stimulus are excited to absorb the blood faster, than it can be supplied by the usual arterial exertion.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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By the way, our Catholic friends seem to forget that "bibulous" Wittenberg was
Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation 1904
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There's great tenderness in the scene where Miron remembers pouring vodka on a ripe, naked Tanya as a kind of bibulous foreplay.
Variety.com 2010
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Then there are the characters who inhabit the pages, such as the bibulous hack Lunchtime O'Booze and Glenda Slag, a parody of many a female newspaper columnist whose opinions are as fickle and self-contradictory as her readers'.
Britain's All-Seeing Private Eye Richard Holledge 2011
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Throughout his bibulous wanderings, Mr. Wilson never loses sight of the drink in the glass.
On a Spirited Journey Pervaiz Shallwani 2010
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A furious Donovan called off the fox project, but it lived on, if only at bibulous OSS gatherings.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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He was raucous, bibulous, lecherous and with a genius for showing an equal contempt for the common man and those in power.
Simon Jenkins: Half a Century After Mencken's Death, Opinion Is What is Riding High Simon Jenkins 2011
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Then there are the characters who inhabit the pages, such as the bibulous hack Lunchtime O'Booze and Glenda Slag, a parody of many a female newspaper columnist whose opinions are as fickle and self-contradictory as her readers'.
News You Shouldn't Use Richard Holledge 2011
lizzy commented on the word bibulous
got it thanks to sarra
December 9, 2006
jorge999 commented on the word bibulous
the preacher was so bibulous
November 6, 2009