bibber
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English
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.[1]
Noun
bibber (plural bibbers)
Usage notes
Chiefly used in composition, as in winebibber.
Synonyms
- tippler; See also Thesaurus:drunkard
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “bibber”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From bibberen.
Noun
bibber m (plural bibbers, diminutive bibbertje n)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
bibber
- inflection of bibberen:
German
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Verb
bibber
- inflection of bibbern:
Yola
Verb
bibber
- Alternative form of bebber
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 25
Categories:
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *peh₃-
- English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:People
- Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation
- Dutch terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Dutch/ɪbər
- Rhymes:Dutch/ɪbər/2 syllables
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch nouns with plural in -s
- Dutch masculine nouns
- Dutch non-lemma forms
- Dutch verb forms
- German terms with audio links
- German non-lemma forms
- German verb forms
- Yola lemmas
- Yola verbs