Bibulous

Word BIBULOUS
Character 8
Hyphenation bib u lous
Pronunciations /ˈbɪb.jʊ.ləs/

Definitions and meanings of "Bibulous"

What do we mean by bibulous?

Given to or marked by the consumption of alcoholic drink. adjective

Very absorbent, as paper or soil. adjective

Having the quality of absorbing or imbibing fluids or moisture; absorbent; spongy.

Fond of drinking intoxicating liquors; addicted to drink; proceeding from or characterized by such tendency: as, bibulous propensities.

Relating to drink or drinking: as, bibulous lore.

Readily imbibing fluids or moisture; spongy. adjective

Inclined to drink; addicted to tippling. adjective

Very absorbent adjective

Given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol adjective

Given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol adjective

Very absorbent.

Given to or marked by the consumption of alcoholic drink.

Adj; A word describing something that resembles the unique stylings of Bib Jakes. Urban Dictionary

Denotes examples of drunkenness that are related in scripture. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Bibulous

The word "bibulous" in example sentences

The only nod to the bibulous was the Toll House Cocktail, a house-special from the same (now long-gone) Whitman, Mass., inn famous for its chocolate-chip cookies. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The people in Taiwan are not bibulous, which is to their credit but an annoyance to us tourist lushes. ❋ K. A. Laity (2005)

There is an experiment, which seems to evince this venous absorption, which consists in the external application of a stimulus to the lips, as of vinegar, by which they become instantly pale; that is, the bibulous mouths of the veins by this stimulus are excited to absorb the blood faster, than it can be supplied by the usual arterial exertion. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

By the way, our Catholic friends seem to forget that "bibulous" Wittenberg was ❋ Unknown (1904)

There's great tenderness in the scene where Miron remembers pouring vodka on a ripe, naked Tanya as a kind of bibulous foreplay. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Early-music veterans Paul Agnew (a soothing Dieu du Sommeil) and Bernard Deletré (a funny, bibulous River Sangar) made vivid contributions, as did Nicolas Rivenq as Célénus; Marc Mauillon and Sophie Daneman as Sangaride's dueting confidants, who naughtily urge her to choose love over duty; and the incisive Ingrid Perruche as Mélisse, Cybèle's disapproving confidante, who thinks the goddess is slumming by falling in love with a mortal. ❋ Heidi Waleson (2011)

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 ❋ Unknown (2010)

Throughout his bibulous wanderings, Mr. Wilson never loses sight of the drink in the glass. ❋ Pervaiz Shallwani (2010)

A furious Donovan called off the fox project, but it lived on, if only at bibulous OSS gatherings. ❋ Jennet Conant (2011)

The Frans Hals Museum has some of his most celebrated group portraits, including those forbidding black-clad, white-collared elderly female regents of a charitable organization, and their soberly dressed but bibulous male counterparts, along with a brilliantly colored banqueting scene of one of the militia companies that, in Hals's day, were less organizations for defense than elite social clubs essential to political or business advancement. ❋ Karen Wilkin (2011)

The cast includes Hope Davis at her best as Charlie's libidinous mother, Robert Downey Jr. as the school's bibulous principal and Kat Dennings as his daughter. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2011)

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Theodore Roethke was a particular friend, and sometimes slept in Mr. Sargent's bathtub at the conclusion of a bibulous evening. ❋ Stephen Miller (2012)

Then there are the characters who inhabit the pages, such as the bibulous hack Lunchtime O'Booze and Glenda Slag, a parody of many a female newspaper columnist whose opinions are as fickle and self-contradictory as her readers'. ❋ Richard Holledge (2011)

He was raucous, bibulous, lecherous and with a genius for showing an equal contempt for the common man and those in power. ❋ Simon Jenkins (2011)

During the later stages of the grand bal — not a single drunk, tart, or slapper to be seen or heard; please pay close attention, bibulous, messy old England! — ❋ Unknown (2009)

They sprouted, albeit on different scales, as heavily Catholic, blue-collar and bibulous strongholds. ❋ Cliff Christl (2011)

"When negotiations became sticky, Menzies whisked everyone off to White's Club for a bibulous lunch and? suitably refreshed? they resolved their differences", says Aldrich. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We had been introduced at various do's before this meeting, and the overriding impression he conveyed was of slightly bibulous campness. ❋ Unknown (2010)

[The 20] inch [spinners] on that [escalade] is so bibulous. ❋ JustDon'tCallmePimpti (2004)

If alcohol is so evil and [sinful], why does the bibulical account of [Jesus's] turning water into [wine] exist? ❋ QuacksO (2020)

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