English Explanatory Dictionary

bibulous

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Very absorbent.
  2. Given to or marked by the consumption of alcoholic drink.

Pronunciation

/ˈbɪb.jʊ.ləs/ bĭbʹyo͝o-ləs LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-bibulous.wav

Word forms

bibulous more bibulous most bibulous

Etymology

From Latin bibulus from bibō (“drink”) + -ulus from Proto-Italic *pibō, from Proto-Indo-European *píph₃eti, from root *peh₃- (“drink”); whence also imbibe and beverage via Old French beivre.

Synonyms

bibacious boozy sottish Adrian Quist adrip aled up all mops and brooms arseholed a sheet in the wind a sheet in the wind's eye bedrunken befuddled beliquored besotted besotten bevvied bibulous binned bingoed bladdered blasted blewed blind blind drunk blitzed blocked blootered blottoed blue bollocksed bombed bosky bottled Brahms Brahms and Liszt budgy bungalowed bungfu burlin' canned clobbered corned cocked cockeyed crapulous crocked cunted cup-shot cup-shotten cut dead drunk destroyed disguised drunk drunk as a piper drunked up drunken ebriated ebriose elephant's

Related words

bibacious bibation bibativeness bibulate imbibe

Derived words

bibulously bibulousness omnibibulous unbibulous
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