Dictionary

libatious en · ADJ

Etymology

From libation (“(humorous) alcoholic beverage”) + -ous.

Meanings

1. (humorous) Having a tendency to drink alcohol, especially in large amounts.
   • Mama said he'd be a failure Live down on the Bowery somewhere, yeah Libacious schoolboy with that slicked back hair 1983, Marc Jordan and John Capek, “American Pop”, in Bodies and Souls, performed by The Manhattan Transfer:
   • The saloons flourish, though desperate drunkenness is not so frequent as in the larger cities. It is the sottish, unthinking, maudlin, libacious sort, who drink their beer and sit in muddled contemplation of their pipe, often on their cottage doorsteps. 1892, Amanda M. Douglas, The Heirs of Bradley House, page 319:
   • Social life among students was lively, libatious, and often irreverent. 2017, Michael Wertheimer, Max Wertheimer and Gestalt Theory, page 38:
   • […] asked our libatious bride of Christ to take a sobriety test. She failed. 2016, Iain Spragg, “Sister Caught in the Act”, in Teachers' Strangest Tales:

Forms

Synonyms

boozy