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bibulous

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Definition:
1. Readily imbibing fluids or moisture; spongy
2. Inclined to drink; addicted to tippling.

Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises has a very bibulous theme.
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His wife Mary— the golfer, the runner-up in state tennis tournaments, the giver of smart but not too bibulous cocktail parties at the country club, the wearer of smart brown tweeds with a green scarf— seemed to have dropped gracefully back into the domesticity of her mother, and to consider as a very weighty thing a recipe for celery-and-roquefort sandwiches on toasted soda crackers.

Sinclair Lewis. It Can't Happen Here
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it was strange to see the color rise in that shaggy, bibulous, time-worn face

Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: 10 (Book Ten) . Simon & Schuster
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