bibulous
Americanadjective
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fond of or addicted to drink.
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absorbent; spongy.
adjective
Other Word Forms
- bibulosity noun
- bibulously adverb
- bibulousness noun
- nonbibulous adjective
- nonbibulously adverb
- nonbibulousness noun
- unbibulous adjective
- unbibulously adverb
- unbibulousness noun
Etymology
Origin of bibulous
1665–75; < Latin bibulus ( bib ( ere ) to drink (cognate with Sanskrit píbati (he) drinks) + -ulus -ulous )
Example Sentences
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Mr. Humphries created a string of other characters over the years, notably the boorish, bibulous Australian cultural attaché Sir Les Patterson.
From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2023
He was born in 1972, and was brought up in a housing project in South London, the youngest of four boys, with a strict English mother and a bibulous Irish Catholic father.
From The New Yorker • May 20, 2019
Colorado - really its farmers and ranchers - are stewards for increasingly bibulous downstream states.
From Washington Times • Sep. 15, 2018
Dougherty’s bibulous, quick-footed turn is terrific — right at Mendenhall’s and Ingvarsson’s level.
From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2015
The first schoolmaster sent to New Netherland arrived in 1633 at the same time as Bogardus, and represented the cause of education even less creditably than did the bibulous domine that of religion.
From Dutch and English on the Hudson A Chronicle of Colonial New York by Goodwin, Maud Wilder
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