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bibulous

[ UK /ba‍ɪbjˈʊləs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol
    thick boozy singing
    a drunken binge
    a bibulous fellow
    his boozy drinking companions
    a bibulous evening
    sottish behavior
    two drunken gentlemen holding each other up

How To Use bibulous In A Sentence

  • They are both erecting places where the bibulously inclined may imbibe to their hearts content.
  • A furious Donovan called off the fox project, but it lived on, if only at bibulous OSS gatherings. A Covert Affair
  • A middle-aged son of the General, a physician by profession, being bibulously inclined, on being informed of his father's death, broke out into uncontrollable and hysterical fit of weeping.
  • _calabogus_ in Newfoundland, and -- soda-water in the United States, I desired to complete the bibulous cosmos, in which _koumiss_ was still lacking. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865
  • 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'. Britain's All-Seeing Private Eye
  • So, come the denouement, their table was very bibulous and merry while everyone else was in a state of nervy misery.
  • The profitability of corn whiskey, heavy frontier drinking, the spread of saloons in cities, and the immigration of beer-drinking and whiskey-swilling foreigners all encouraged the nation's bibulous tendencies.
  • 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. Cranberry Cocktail Confusion
  • She evokes a broadcasting company that was different from that of today, full of stuffed shirts and bibulous eccentrics.
  • 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'. News You Shouldn't Use
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