bibuˈlosity
[See bibulous a. and -osity.]
Addiction to tippling. Also ˈbibulousness (cf. bibulous a. 1, 2).
| 1844 Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. V. i. 125 Their colour;..their bibulousness; all these properties conspire to the determination of the temperature of a given soil. 1901 Rashdall & Rait New College 207 The common-room which Spence occasionally adorned could not have been wholly given up to uncultivated bibulosity. 1928 Daily Express 2 Oct. 6 He caught the man under the arm and affected a slight bibulousness himself. |