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Bibulously

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bib·u·lous  (bby-ls)
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.


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Combine Orff's version of the bibulously erotic Carmina Burana, two composers totally fascinated with gypsy culture and the sultry Spaniard de Falla and there is going to be fireworks.
The suspects in a literary whodunnit spanning almost 700 years include a bibulously larcenous 17th century friar and a supposedly clumsy 19th century anatomist.
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