libatious
adjEtymology From libation (“(humorous) alcoholic beverage”) + -ous.
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Humorous Having a tendency to drink alcohol, especially in large amounts.
- The saloons flourish, though desperate drunkenness is not so frequent as in the larger cities. It is the sottish, unthinking, maudlin, libacious sort, who drink their beer and sit in muddled contemplation of their pipe, often on their cottage doorsteps.1892, Amanda M. Douglas, The Heirs of Bradley House, page 319:
- Mama said he'd be a failure Live down on the Bowery somewhere, yeah Libacious schoolboy with that slicked back hair1983, Marc Jordan and John Capek, “American Pop”, in Bodies and Souls, performed by The Manhattan Transfer:
2 more examples
- […] asked our libatious bride of Christ to take a sobriety test. She failed.2016, Iain Spragg, “Sister Caught in the Act”, in Teachers' Strangest Tales:
- Social life among students was lively, libatious, and often irreverent.2017, Michael Wertheimer, Max Wertheimer and Gestalt Theory, page 38: