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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A person described as bibulous has a fondness for what?
From Slate • Dec. 25, 2023
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
From that bibulous beginning, Mr. Epstein became a driving force behind the Library of America, which published its first books in 1979.
From Washington Post • Feb. 4, 2022
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
Everything fried in fat should be placed on bibulous paper to absorb any fat on the surfaces.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various
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