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aquabib en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈeɪk.wə.bɪb/

Etymology

Based on Latin aqua (“water”) + bibere, infinitive of bibō (“to drink”)

Meanings

1. (derogatory, obsolete, rare) A teetotaler; one who does not consume alcohol.
   • Hydropots and aquabibs are epithets bestowed by the champions of alcohol in London upon the temperance folk. 1883, The Louisville Medical News: a weekly journal of medicine and surgery: Volumes 15-16:
   • While its more sober counterpart was directed to quite different ends by a pugnacious aquabib, William Henry Draper 1966, Robert Arnold Aubin, Topographical poetry in XVII-century Eng:
   • Dwight L. Moody and John B. Gough, the great aquabib, had commanded attention […] 1949, Julia Cooley Altrocchi, The spectacular San Franciscans:

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