winebibber

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   dated or literary: a person who habitually or excessively drinks wine or other alcohol

   The sermon portrayed the boastful winebibber as a warning against excess.

A compound of wine + bibber. Bibber is an old agent noun from bib, 'to drink repeatedly or immoderately,' probably related to Latin bibere, 'to drink.' The term is now chiefly historical, literary, or biblical in tone.

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