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Adjective

bibulous (comparative more bibulous, superlative most bibulous)

  • Very absorbent.
    • ✤ Wearing gloves and chemical eye protection, cover the smear with a strip of bibulous paper cut slightly smaller than the slide.1
  • Given to or marked by the consumption of alcoholic drink.
    • ✤ Synonyms: bibacious, boozy, sottish; see also Thesaurus: drunk
    • ✤ At first he was closely confined there, but one day he broke the privy window and escaped to Shehad, the bibulous Emir, in his suburb of Awali.2
    • ✤ His pet, Mr. Dahl announced in a flash of bibulous inspiration, caused him no such trouble. The reason? “I have a pet rock,” he explained.3

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.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈbɪb.jʊ.ləs/, enPR: bĭbʹyo͝o-ləs
  • Audio (US): 🔊

Printed 2026-09-04.

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Footnotes

  1. 2015, Michael J. Leboffe, Microbiology: Laboratory Theory and Application, page 217: ↩

  2. 1926, T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, New York: Anchor, published 1991, page 155: ↩

  3. 2015 March 31, Margalit Fox, “Gary Dahl, Inventor of the Pet Rock, Dies at 78”, in The New York Times ‎, →ISSN: ↩

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