Dictionary

bibulous en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• bĭbʹyo͝o-ləs
• (US) audio
• /ˈbɪb.jʊ.ləs/

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.

Meanings

1. Very absorbent.
   • Wearing gloves and chemical eye protection, cover the smear with a strip of bibulous paper cut slightly smaller than the slide. 2015, Michael J. Leboffe, Microbiology: Laboratory Theory and Application, page 217:
2. Given to or marked by the consumption of alcoholic drink.
   • 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. 2015 March 31, Margalit Fox, “Gary Dahl, Inventor of the Pet Rock, Dies at 78”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
   • 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. 1926, T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, New York: Anchor, published 1991, page 155:

Forms

Deriveds

omnibibulous · bibulously · bibulousness · unbibulous

Relateds

bibation · bibativeness · imbibe · bibacious · bibulate

Synonyms

swacked · groggy · loaded · soused · adrip · fluted · a sheet in the wind · stotious · ebriated · out of one's head · drunken · sozzly · shicker · a sheet in the wind's eye · wellied · woozy · maggot · drunk · tippled · bollocksed · puggled · half lit · clobbered · half polluted · dead drunk · soaken · slammed · tanked up · zooted · boozy · frosted · potted · tight · bungalowed · hazed · mortal · have the sun in one's eyes · bungfu · paralytic · tanked · shitty · befuddled · four sheets in the wind · spongy · primed · quisby · flooey · blewed · slarmied · elevated · oiled · parlatic · lushed · MWI · glorious · canned · mashed · spannered · high · Oliver Twist · steamboats · on the ran tan · bingoed · schnockered · worse for wear · larruped · hog-whimpering · withered · juiced · jaked · besotten · mortalled · gattered · blitzed · zonked · potshot · razzled · pie-eyed · skunked · rolling · wastey · top-heavy with drink · honkers · cup-shot · beliquored · lash · fershnickered · all mops and brooms · sottish · spanceled · wet · budgy · stoned · slizzard · out of one's box · besotted · mullered · fap · lashed · ripe · hosed · scammered · fluthered · disguised · pickled · in the drink · impaired · zorched · lubed up · crapulous · inter pocula · high as a Georgia pine · bevvied · throwed · binned · drunked up · maggoted · toasted · squiffed · cocked · off one's tits · fuzzy-headed · snuffy · overtaken · juiced up · three sheets to the wind · flush · well-oiled · tight as a tick · wazzed · Mozart and Liszt · inebrious · maudlin · tilted · arseholed · lubricated · kisky · overcome · worse for liquor · splashed · sloppy drunk · blootered · raddled · insobrietous · bibulous · hoovered · high as a kite · inebriate · kettled · monged · gee-eyed · bibacious · out of sight · flushed · overrefreshed · corned · fuckered up · twisted · langers · sozzled · half cut · tipsy · gesuip · off one's head · elephant's trunk · plastered · souped-up · lamped · sloshed · bosky · sauced up · trashed · nappy · bottled · Brahms and Liszt · how came you so · zoned · sprung · muggy · shedded · pounded · in the bag · cut · tuned · fuzzy-minded · snozzled · bedrunken · whittled · munted · insober · destroyed · out of it · wrecked · kaylied · strut · groggified · stewed · floored · shellacked · sodden · Adrian Quist · ginned · in one's cups · twatfaced · looped · top-heavy · snockered · screwed · fou · muddled · messed up · blind drunk · gassed · blue · stoated · hooched up · in one's altitudes · loose · crocked · sotted · fresh · stinking · drunk as a piper · medicated · obfuscated · out of one's face · jarred · off one's box · sewed up · liquory · muzzy · cockeyed · zotzed · loopy · ratfaced · rubbered · cup-shotten · polluted · langered · aled up · blocked · faced · obliviated · inebriated · blasted · tired and emotional · bladdered · Brahms · hammered · oiled up · pixilated · fuddled · spiffed · wazzocked · sauced · bibacious · stonkered · temulent · Oliver · snookered · bombed · newted · half seas over · scuttered · elephant's · full · three sheets in the wind · legless · gished · cunted · flustered · have drink taken · temulentive · blind · ebriose · ossified · boozy · in liquor · ripped · schloshed · hooted · burlin' · nimptopsical · toping · fried · fuckfaced · lit · mad with it · blottoed · lathered · liquored up · smashed · feeling no pain · shickered · soshed · mabok · plowed · wobbly · sottish · lubed · ploughed · stinko

Translations (10)

ru абсорби́рующий (very absorbent) · ru выпива́ющий (marked by the consumption of alcohol) · cy yfgar (marked by the consumption of alcohol) · es escabio (marked by the consumption of alcohol) · es escabiador (marked by the consumption of alcohol) · la bibax (marked by the consumption of alcohol) · cy llymeitgar (marked by the consumption of alcohol) · ru гигроскопи́чный (very absorbent) · bg хигроскопичен (very absorbent) · bg пиянски (marked by the consumption of alcohol)