Bibulous
['bɪbjʊləs]
Definition
(adj.) given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol; 'a bibulous fellow'; 'a bibulous evening'; 'his boozy drinking companions'; 'thick boozy singing'; 'a drunken binge'; 'two drunken gentlemen holding each other up'; 'sottish behavior' .
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Definition
(v. t.) Readily imbibing fluids or moisture; spongy; as, bibulous blotting paper.
(v. t.) Inclined to drink; addicted to tippling.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Spongy, porous.
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Definition
adj. drinking or sucking in: spongy.
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Examples
- To transfer the drawing from paper on to the stone, the paper is first sponged with diluted nitric acid, which decomposes the size, and renders it bibulous. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- On one occasion Edison acted as treasurer for his bibulous companions, holding the stakes, so to speak, in order that the supply of liquor might last longer. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In the _biscuit_ or _bisque_ form pottery is bibulous, the prepared glaze sinks into its pores and when burned forms a vitreous coating. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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