bibulously

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bib·u·lous

(bĭb′yə-ləs)

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 pō(i)- in Indo-European roots.]

bib′u·lous·ly adv.

bib′u·lous·ness n.

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Two months later, on the night our troops landed in Normandy, Camus was bibulously celebrating the opening of one of his now forgotten plays.