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▪ I. bibbing, vbl. n.|ˈbɪbɪŋ|
[f. bib v. + -ing1.]
Continued or repeated drinking; tippling.
a1400Alexander (Stev.) 154 Bacus he was braynewode for bebbing of wynes. 1563Homilies ii. Agst. Gluttony (1859) 298 They that give themselves..to bibbing and banqueting. 1835L. Hunt Jrnl. No. 70. 256 The bibbing of bad water..meets with encouragement.
b. attrib., as in bibbing-house (= tippling-house).
1587Churchyard Worth. Wales (1876) 14 The Danes likewise, doe lead a bibbing life. 1687T. Brown Lib. Consc. in Dk. Buckhm's. Wks. (1705) II. 131 It wou'd sound oddly to turn it [the Meeting-house] into a Bibbing-House.
▪ II. ˈbibbing, ppl. a.
[f. bib v. + -ing2.]
1. That bibs; given to drinking.
1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits xiv. (1596) 253 If the same be gluttonous, greedy, and bibbing. 1656W. Dugard Gate Lat. Unl. §623 Ravening and bibbing belly-gods. 1833Fraser's Mag. VIII. 44 He is now a..port-bibbing, gout-bemartyred believer in the Tory faith.
2. Of things: Absorbent; = bibulous 1.
1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. v. xvii. 51 Unto a bibbing substance down convoying. Ibid. v. xxvi, The bibbing third draws it together nigher. |