bibulous

Example Sentences

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A person described as bibulous has a fondness for what?

From Slate • Dec. 25, 2023

Mr. Humphries created a string of other characters over the years, notably the boorish, bibulous Australian cultural attaché Sir Les Patterson.

From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2023

He was born in 1972, and was brought up in a housing project in South London, the youngest of four boys, with a strict English mother and a bibulous Irish Catholic father.

From The New Yorker • May 20, 2019

Colorado - really its farmers and ranchers - are stewards for increasingly bibulous downstream states.

From Washington Times • Sep. 15, 2018

Readily imbibing fluids or moisture; spongy; as, bibulous blotting paper.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah