bibler

See also: Bibler

English

Etymology 1

See bib (transitive verb).

Alternative forms

Noun

bibler (plural biblers)

(archaic) A great drinker; a tippler.
- 1889 August, “Echoes of the Month”, in The Musical Herald and Tonic Sol-fa Reporter, number 8, page 184:
  Mr. W. H. Cummings defends the character of Purcell from the remarks of Mr. J. F. Crowest, who in his anxiety to prove that wine has always stimulated music, makes Purcell a bibler.
- 1902, George Otis Draper, Searching for Truth, page 418:
  Somehow the popular idealism pictures the bibler as a stout hearty individual of merry moods and good vigour, while the typical total-abstinence fanatic arises in our minds as one of colourless vitality and sombre physiognomy.
- 2015, Dr. K. L. Moudgill, The Jeevanias: An Indian Family Saga from the British Era:
  It was also said that the son was a bibler and the father a total abstainer.
- 2020, Daniel Malleck, Drugs, Alcohol and Addiction in the Long Nineteenth Century:
  What must have been thought of drunkenness during the reign of Tiberius may be inferred from the fact that this emperor, surnamed Biberius (the bibler), appointed Pison Prefect of Rome for having passed two days and nights with him at the drinking board, witnessing the feats of inglorious Novellius Torquatus, who was surnamed Tricongius from his ability to swallow three congii (about three quarts) of wine at one draught.
- 2021, Ralph Nevill, Floreat Etona:
  At a comparatively early period in the history of the school the tendency which within the last forty years abolished the First and Second Forms seems to have been in existence, no First Form figuring in the school list of 1678, in which its place is taken by the Bibler's seat —the Bibler being a boy deputed to read a portion of Scripture in the Hall during dinner.

Etymology 2

From bible +‎ -er.

Noun

bibler (plural biblers)

(archaic, slang, derogatory) A protestant.
- 1651, Charles George Cock, English-Law, page 32:
  as the Church-mens policy was great, so they forgot not to foresee a storm, in case Mary should depart without issue, and the Crown come to Elizabeth, who was, as the Germans called them, a Protestant, as the French, a Huguenot, or of the Religion, as the English, a Lollard, a Bibler, a Gospeller; wherefore there were many plots to take her away;
- 1838, John James Lowndes, Memorials of ... Myles Coverdale, page 96:
  And bcause it greueth them that your subiectes be growen so farre in knowlege of theyr dewtye to God, to youre grace, & to theyr neghboures, theyr inwarde malyce doth breake oute in to blasphemous & vncomlye wordes, in so much that they cal your louynge & faythfull people, heretikes, new fangled fellowes, English biblers, coblers of diuinite, fellowes of the new fayth. &c . with such other vngodly sayenges.
- 2007, Anthony Copley, “The Temple of Peace”, in Robert S. Miola, editor, Early Modern Catholicism: An Anthology of Primary Sources, page 208:
  There credence and their language was alike, All Babel-biblers they did dead dislike.
A student at a boarding school who has the job of reading from the bible during meals.
- 1814, Sir John Harington, The Metamorphosis of Ajax, page 86:
  But now I pray you let us hearken to the Scripture, for the bibler is not yet come to Tu autem.
- 1896, Walter Raleigh, “Sir John Harington”, in The New Review, volume 15, page 282:
  With his interpolation of sacred matter into that profane work, the author compares the treatment he experienced "at our commencement feasts and such-like, in Cambridge; that when we have been in the midst of some pleasant argument, suddenly the Bibler hath come, and with a loud and audible voice began with Incipit libri Deuteronomium, caput vicesimum tertium.
- 2005, Walter Mildmay, The Statutes of Sir Walter Mildmay, page 61:
  At table at every meal all shall diligently and attentively hear the Bible before and after dinner and supper, until the Master or his deputy shall tell the Bibler to end.
(slang, Winchester College) A flogging of six cuts on the small of the back in which the bible clerk and ostiarius held up the culprit's shirt while a school official administered the flogging.
- 1835, John Blakiston, Twenty Years in Retirement - Volume 2, page 238:
  "That's a lie! if you don't tell me where you got these verses this instant, I'll give you a bibler." —A bibler, you must know, reader , has nothing whatever to do with the Holy Scriptures, but is a particularly severe flogging, attended by certain forms to give the punishment more solemnity.
- 1883, Edward John G.H. Rich, Recollections of the two St. Mary Winton colleges, page 10:
  If a boy were detected in a gross falsehood, besides undergoing a bibler, he had to "stand under the nail" for an hour or two previously.
- 1917, Arthur Kemball Cook, ‎Christopher Johnson, About Winchester College, page 323:
  "A bibler was supposed to imply an (in some degree) moral offence", a scourging implied nothing of the kind; the comparative frequency of biblers and of scourgings ("often vulgarized into scrubbings" ) was, T. A. Trollope supposed, as "one to a thousand".
One given to quoting the bible; a bible-thumper.
- 1626, Thomas Godwin, Moses and Aaron, page 58:
  So in respect of this particular opposition, in the ones reiecting, the others vrging of traditions, the sadduces were termed […] Biblers, or Scripturists .
- 1959, Sewell Thomas, Silhouettes of Charles S. Thomas, page 149:
  Well—I ain't much of a Bibler, but I got th' Book in my outfit an' I like to read it.
- 2015, William Sutton, Lawless and the Devil of Euston Square:
  Outside, a Bibler harassed me with pamphlets: Satan in Your Hairbrush was one, Satan in the Teapot, another.

Anagrams

Ribble, libber

Danish

Noun

bibler c

indefinite plural of bibel

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

bibler m

indefinite plural of bibel