Bibulous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bibulous \Bib"u*lous\, a. [L. bibulus, fr. bibere to drink. See
     {Bib}, v. t. ]
     1. Readily imbibing fluids or moisture; spongy; as, bibulous
        blotting paper.
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     2. Inclined to drink; addicted to tippling.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bibulous
       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 gentleman holding each other up";
             "sottish behavior" [syn: {boozy}, {drunken}, {sottish}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  53 Moby Thesaurus words for "bibulous":
     absorbent, addicted to drink, adsorbent, assimilative, bibacious,
     blotting, chemisorptive, chemosorptive, crapulent, crapulous,
     digestive, drinking, drunken, endosmotic, excessive, exosmotic,
     extravagant, extreme, given to drink, gluttonous, imbibitory,
     immoderate, incontinent, indulgent, inordinate, intemperate,
     osmotic, overindulgent, overindulging, prodigal, resorbent,
     self-indulgent, soaking, sorbent, sottish, spongeous, spongy,
     swilling, swinish, thirsty, tippling, too much, toping, unbridled,
     unconstrained, uncontrolled, undisciplined, unfrugal, unlimited,
     unmeasured, unrestrained, unthrifty, winebibbing