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Synonyms for wine-bibber
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : wahyn-bib-er |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈwaɪnˌbɪb ər |
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Définition of wine-bibber
Origin :- "drunkard," 1530s, loan-translation of German Weinsäufer (Luther), from Wein "wine" + Säufer "bibber." See bibber.
- As in drunkard : noun one who drinks too much
- Yes; Letitia is what you call a flesh-eater and wine-bibber like myself.
- Extract from : « Love's Usuries » by Louis Creswicke
- I am no wine-bibber, Bunny, as you know, but I hope you appreciate the specifications as I do.
- Extract from : « A Thief in the Night » by E. W. Hornung
- He is lazy and filthy, gluttonous, and would be a wine-bibber had he the chance.
- Extract from : « Pictures of Canadian Life » by J. Ewing Ritchie
- It will make me start back before I make Christ cruel or false, a wine-bibber, a glutton, or unclean.
- Extract from : « Bunyan Characters - Third Series » by Alexander Whyte
- Finally they saw me, and said aloud—'There is a wine-bibber sleeping himself sober.'
- Extract from : « The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 » by Eugne Sue
- The wine-bibber forswore even chocolate as too strong a beverage.
- Extract from : « Southern Spain » by A.F. Calvert
- Johnson was a water drinker; and Boswell was a wine-bibber, and indeed little better than a habitual sot.
- Extract from : « The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 3. (of 4) » by Thomas Babington Macaulay
- He is a glutton and a wine-bibber, a susceptible heart, a pious and deeply versed man.
- Extract from : « Egoists » by James Huneker
- Johnson was a water-drinker and Boswell was a wine-bibber, and indeed little better than an habitual sot.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 4 » by Various
- He condemned as well the faster and the prohibitionist as the glutton and the wine-bibber.
- Extract from : « The Real Jesus of the Four Gospels » by J. B. Atwater
Antonyms for wine-bibber
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