Bibber

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One given to drinking alcoholic beverages too freely; a tippler.

Etymology

From bib (“drink heartily”) + -er (agent noun suffix); see bib (“clothing to prevent spills from mouth”). Bib is from Middle English bibben. First attested in the 1530s.

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