bibber

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And a coffee-bibber is always a bad housewife; and as Baroness Rosenhjelm is a coffee-bibber, therefore I must tell you," interrupted Susanna, vehemently, "that it is unbecoming and profane of you to talk in this way of such an excellent lady, and a person of such high rank High!

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  1. noun A tippler; a drinker.

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  • The enemies of Christ said He was a gluttonous man and a wine bibber, a friend of the publicans and sinners; that after the people at the marriage feast were well drunken, He turned water into wine that they might have more to drink; that in the cornfield He plucked the cars of corn and ate them; that He saw an ass hitched, and without leave took it and rode into Jerusalem; that He went into the Temple and overset the tables of the money changers and took cords and whaled them out, telling them they had made His Father's house a den of thieves. —  The Mormon Menace The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite
  • He was a great wine-bibber, and one of our best customers. —  The Pacha of Many Tales
  • And a coffee-bibber is always a bad housewife; and as Baroness Rosenhjelm is a coffee-bibber, therefore I must tell you," interrupted Susanna, vehemently, "that it is unbecoming and profane of you to talk in this way of such an excellent lady, and a person of such high rank High! —  Strife and Peace
  • My last promise to my mother, was never to become a wine-bibber, and I shall keep it Bravo!" —  The Brother Clerks A Tale of New-Orleans
  • He is not a wine-bibber, and he is not a total abstainer. —  Horace and His Influence
 

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  1. From bib.

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  1. from bib + -er. Cf. Old Dutch biberer, a bibber. See bib.
 

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/ˈbɪbər/
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