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wine-bibber|ˈwaɪnˌbɪbə(r)|
Also 6 wyne bebber.
[f. wine n.1 + bibber n. Invented by Coverdale to render Luther's säufer, weinsäufer.]
1. A tippler, a drunkard. Now literary and arch.
1535Coverdale Prov. xxiii. 20 Kepe no company with wyne bebbers and ryotous eaters of flesh. ― Matt. xi. 19. 1609 Dekker Gull's Horn-bk. Proem. B 2 b, An honest red⁓nosed wine bibber. a1704T. Brown Char. Jacobite Clergy Wks. 1711 IV. 266 Look into their Conversation and you'll find them Wine-bibbers to the highest Excess. 1778W. H. Marshall Minutes Agric., Digest 8 He commences wine-bibber at Fair and at Market. 1807W. Irving Salmag. xvi. (1824) 300 When the guzzlers, the gormandizers, and the wine-bibbers meet together. 1870Bryant Iliad I. i. 13 Wine-bibber, with the forehead of a dog And a deer's heart.
†2. A name for the African genet (Genetta pardina). Obs.
1705tr. Bosman's Guinea xiv. 252 The Negroes call it Berbe, and the Europeans Wine-bibber, because 'tis very greedy of Palm-Wine. 1771Pennant Syn. Quadr. 237.
So ˈwine-ˌbibbing vbl. n. (also attrib.) and ppl. a.; also ˈwine-ˌbibbery, wine-bibbing.
1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. 1 Pet. iv. 1–7 Nowe in stedde of outragious luste, chastitie is pleasaunte:..for wynnebybbyng, sobrietie. a1593Marlowe Ovid's Elegies iii. i, Wine-bibbing banquets. 1603H. Crosse Vertue's Commw. (1878) 140 O what lamentable Tragedies is by this Vice acted among wine-bibbing companions. 1816Scott Old Mort. v, To..close your evening with wine-bibbing in public-houses and market-towns. 1832J. Wilson Noctes Ambros. in Blackw. Mag. Sept. 398 The secret antiquities and private history of royal wine-bibbery. 1873H. Morley 1st Sk. Engl. Lit. ii. 25 Wine-bibbing monks. |