Definition of "bibulous" [bib•u•lous]

• Given to or marked by the consumption of alcoholic drink: a bibulous fellow; a bibulous evening. (adjective)
• Very absorbent, as paper or soil. (adjective)

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• "The only nod to the bibulous was the Toll House Cocktail, a house-special from the same (now long-gone) Whitman, Mass., inn famous for its chocolate-chip cookies."
• "The people in Taiwan are not bibulous, which is to their credit but an annoyance to us tourist lushes."
• "There is an experiment, which seems to evince this venous absorption, which consists in the external application of a stimulus to the lips, as of vinegar, by which they become instantly pale; that is, the bibulous mouths of the veins by this stimulus are excited to absorb the blood faster, than it can be supplied by the usual arterial exertion."