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  • verb Present participle of bib.

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Examples

  • You will find him wine-bibbing or in the company of nameless women.

    Chapter 17 2010

  • Charles H. Baker Jr., in his indispensable treatise on dispensables, "The Gentleman's Companion," describes the effects of regular absinthe-bibbing: "It does nibble the keen edge off the brain until a man becomes a sorry sort of thing; aimless, listless, and generally -- shockingly -- lacking."

    Sampling Absinthe's Dubious Charms 2009

  • The Infidels passed that night in joy and jubilee and wine bibbing; and, as soon as it was dawn, the two armies drew out with the swart of spear and the blanch of blade.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The fourth behest, O my son, is Beware of wine-bibbing, for wine is the head of all frowardness and a fine solvent of human wits.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • An athlete caught bibbing had to make a sacrifice, pour some sacramental wine on the ground, and pay a fine -- "half to Apollo and half to the informer."

    An Olympic Cocktail 2008

  • Beware of wine-bibbing, for drink is the root of all evil: it doeth away the reason and bringeth to contempt whoso useth it; and how well saith the poet,

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • And indeed one may fairly ask how, on such a system of common meals, it would be possible for any one to ruin either himself or his family either through gluttony or wine-bibbing.

    The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians 2007

  • That was an age in which wine-bibbing was more common than in our politer time; and, especially since the arrival of General

    The Virginians 2006

  • This proceedeth from your bibbing and swilling yesternight, which (as it seemeth) maketh you to walke about the roome in your sleepe, dreaming of wonders in the night season: it were no great sinne if you brake your neck, to teach you keepe a fairer quarter; and how commeth it to passe, that Signior Panuccio could not keepe himselfe in his owne bed?

    The Decameron 2004

  • The late earl had chosen to live in London all his life, and had sunk down to be the toadying friend, or perhaps I should more properly say the bullied flunky, of a sensual, wine-bibbing, gluttonous — — king.

    Castle Richmond 2004

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