English Explanatory Dictionary

bibler

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A great drinker; a tippler.
noun
  1. A protestant.
  2. A student at a boarding school who has the job of reading from the bible during meals.
  3. A flogging of six cuts on the small of the back in which the bible clerk and ostiarius held up the culprit's shirt while a school official administered the flogging.
  4. One given to quoting the bible; a bible-thumper.
name
  1. A surname.

Word forms

bibler biblers bibbeler bibbler

Etymology

See bib (transitive verb).

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