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bibulous

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈbɪb.jʊ.ləs/Part of speech adjectiveSorted bbilosuuStarts with BEnds with S0 clues
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Definitions

  1. Fond of drinking alcohol, or able to absorb liquid readily.

Word origin

From Latin bibulus from bibō (“drink”) + -ulus from Proto-Italic *pibō, from Proto-Indo-European *píph₃eti, from root *peh₃- (“drink”); whence also imbibe and beverage via Old French beivre.

Used in a sentence

  • Wearing gloves and chemical eye protection, cover the smear with a strip of bibulous paper cut slightly smaller than the slide.
  • At first he was closely confined there, but one day he broke the privy window and escaped to Shehad, the bibulous Emir, in his suburb of Awali.
  • His pet, Mr. Dahl announced in a flash of bibulous inspiration, caused him no such trouble. The reason? “I have a pet rock,” he explained.

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