bib-, bibi- +

(Latin: drink, to drink)


aquabib
1. An individual who only drinks water.
2. A water drinker.

"I was never much of an aquabib because I usually preferred harder libations."

"Some say I'm an aquabib because they think I'm addicted to water."

beverage
1. Any potable (drinkable) liquid; especially, one other than water, as tea, coffee, beer, or milk: "The price of the meal includes a beverage."
2. Any one of various liquids for drinking, usually excluding water.
3. From Anglo-French beverage, from Old French bevre, "to drink" from Latin bibere, "to imbibe".
bib, bibs
1. Any one of various liquids for drinking, usually excluding water.
2. To drink moderately but regularly.
3. To drink; to sip; to tipple.

Non-drinking forms of bib

1. A piece of cloth or plastic secured under the chin and worn, especially by small children, to protect their clothing while eating.
2. The part of an apron or pair of overalls worn over the chest.
3. Bibbed overalls worn while skiing.
4. A piece of cloth or plastic bearing a number, usually worn over the chest or back, identifying a competitor in a skiing race.
bibacious
1. Fond of drinking.
2. Addicted to drinking; disposed to imbibe.
bibacity
1. The practice or habit of drinking too much; tippling.
2. An addiction to drink.
bibation
The act of bibbing.
bibber
A steady drinker; tippler; usually used in combination with the kind of drink: winebibber, beerbibber, etc.
bibbery
Someone who regularly drinks alcoholic beverages.
bibbing
Drinking or indulging in drinking.
bibbler, bibler, bibbeler
A great drinker; a tippler.
bibbling
1. Boozing, drinking, drunkenness, quaffing, tippling.
2. Dabbling with the bill like a duck drinking.
biberon
1. A baby's feeding bottle.
2. A drinking-vessel with elongated spout, formerly used by travellers, invalids, and children.
bibesy
An excessively earnest desire to drink.
bibition
Drinking.
bibitory
Of or pertaining to drinking or tippling.

Related "drink" units: dipso-; haust-; nectar-; poto-.


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