bibulous, a.
(ˈbɪbjʊləs)
[f. L. bibul-us freely or readily drinking (f. bibĕre to drink) + -ous.]
1. Absorbent of moisture.
| 1675 Evelyn Terra (1729) 18 If the Soil be exceeding bibulous. 1790 Cowper Odyss. i. 138 With bibulous sponges those Made clean the tables. 1827 Faraday Chem. Manip. ii. 43 Remove the excess by bibulous paper. |
2. Addicted to drinking or tippling.
| 1861 Thornbury Turner I. 116 The..irregular hours of a careless bibulous age, had undermined Girtin's health. |
3. Relating to drink.
| 1825 Blackw. Mag. XVII. 322 Unskilled in bibulous lore, if he knows not the value set upon the claret of Ireland. |
Hence ˈbibulously adv.
| 1858 De Quincey Goldsm. Wks. VI. 226 The arid sands that bibulously absorbed all the perennial gushings of German enthusiasm. |