Meanings
- pluralplural onlyThe kind of people who read excessively.
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"There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing." - Minority Report: H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
Origin
The term was coined in 1957 by H. L. Mencken, from the Greek "biblio-", meaning books, and the Latin "bibulous", from "bibere" (to drink).
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bibliobibuli. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bibliobibuli
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