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bibulous

[bib-yuh-luhs] / ˈbɪb jə ləs /
ADJECTIVE
absorbent
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ADJECTIVE
drunken
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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

From that bibulous beginning, Mr. Epstein became a driving force behind the Library of America, which published its first books in 1979.

From Washington Post Feb. 4, 2022

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

Large numbers should not be thrown into a killing bottle together, and plenty of bibulous paper should be kept in the bottle to prevent moisture from accumulating and wetting and ruining the specimens.

From Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by C. V. Riley




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