bibulous

bib·u·lous (b

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adj.

1. Given to or marked by the consumption of alcoholic drink: a bibulous fellow; a bibulous evening.

2. Very absorbent, as paper or soil.

[From Latin bibulus, from bibere, to drink; see p(i)- in Indo-European roots.]

bibu·lous·ly adv.

bibu·lous·ness n.

bibulous [ˈbɪbjʊləs]

adj

addicted to alcohol

[from Latin bibulus, from bibere to drink]

bibulously adv

bibulousness n

bibulous - First meant "absorbent, like a sponge," and later figuratively meant "addicted to alcohol."

See also related terms for sponge.

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Adj.

bibulous - given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol; "a bibulous fellow"; "a bibulous evening"; "his boozy drinking companions"; "thick boozy singing"; "a drunken binge"; "two drunken gentlemen holding each other up"; "sottish behavior"

boozy, drunken, sottish

drunk, inebriated, intoxicated - stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol); "a noisy crowd of intoxicated sailors"; "helplessly inebriated"

Translations

bibulous [ˈbɪbjʊləs] ADJ → bebedor, borrachín

bibulous

adj (form) person → trunksüchtig

bibulous [ˈbɪbjʊləs] adj (hum) → avvinazzato/a

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Denisov blushed like a girl (it was strange to see the color rise in that shaggy, bibulous, time-worn face) and boldly began to expound his plan of cutting the enemy's lines of communication between Smolensk and Vyazma.

War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

I nod my head--Liu Ling, a hard drinker, one of the group of bibulous poets who called themselves the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove and who lived in China many an ancient century ago.

John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context

He was a bibulous individual of uncertain age, who, in the intervals of creeping about his duties, kept an eye open for possible additions to his staff of creditors.

The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville View in context

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