bibber
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]bibber (plural bibbers)
Usage notes
[edit]Chiefly used in composition, as in winebibber.
Synonyms
[edit]- tippler; See also Thesaurus:drunkard
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “bibber”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Dutch
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From bibberen.
Noun
[edit]bibber m (plural bibbers, diminutive bibbertje n)
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]bibber
- inflection of bibberen:
German
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Verb
[edit]bibber
- inflection of bibbern:
Yola
[edit]Verb
[edit]bibber
- Alternative form of bebber
References
[edit]- 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
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- 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 pronunciation
- 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 pronunciation
- German non-lemma forms
- German verb forms
- Yola lemmas
- Yola verbs