Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Given to or marked by the consumption of alcoholic drink: a bibulous fellow; a bibulous evening.
- adj. Very absorbent, as paper or soil.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
Wiktionary
- adj. very absorbent
- adj. given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Readily imbibing fluids or moisture; spongy.
- adj. Inclined to drink; addicted to tippling.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol
Etymologies
- Latin bibulus (“freely or readily drinking”, from bibō, “I drink”; whence also beverage and imbibe) + -ous (Wiktionary)
- From Latin bibulus, from bibere, to drink; see pō(i)- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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.”
“The people in Taiwan are not bibulous, which is to their credit but an annoyance to us tourist lushes.”
“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.”
“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
“There's great tenderness in the scene where Miron remembers pouring vodka on a ripe, naked Tanya as a kind of bibulous foreplay.”
“He was raucous, bibulous, lecherous and with a genius for showing an equal contempt for the common man and those in power.”
“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'.”
“Throughout his bibulous wanderings, Mr. Wilson never loses sight of the drink in the glass.”
“A furious Donovan called off the fox project, but it lived on, if only at bibulous OSS gatherings.”
“The Frans Hals Museum has some of his most celebrated group portraits, including those forbidding black-clad, white-collared elderly female regents of a charitable organization, and their soberly dressed but bibulous male counterparts, along with a brilliantly colored banqueting scene of one of the militia companies that, in Hals's day, were less organizations for defense than elite social clubs essential to political or business advancement.”
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the preacher was so bibulous Nov 6, 2009
lizzy got it thanks to sarra Dec 9, 2006