Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who drinks much wine; a tippler; a drunkard.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who drinks much wine.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic, poetic A
habitual drinker ofalcohol , especiallywine ; adrunkard .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Nevertheless, when as a young girl she was given the duty of drawing wine for the family, she ignored the maxim and indulged in wine until the day an angry servant caught her drunk and called her a "winebibber."
Saint Monica de Brantigny........................ 2008
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Nevertheless, when as a young girl she was given the duty of drawing wine for the family, she ignored the maxim and indulged in wine until the day an angry servant caught her drunk and called her a "winebibber."
Archive 2008-08-24 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
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The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
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The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.
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The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.
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“The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans—”
What Would Betty Do? Paul A. Bradley 2002
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“The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans—”
What Would Betty Do? Paul A. Bradley 2002
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“The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans—”
What Would Betty Do? Paul A. Bradley 2002
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The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
Luke 7. 1999
qms commented on the word winebibber
The curse of the bashful winebibber
Is drink at the first makes him glibber
But eloquence fades,
The right word evades
And soon he’ll do no more than gibber.
September 17, 2018