libatious

comparative more libatious · superlative most libatious · alternative libacious

1. humorousHaving a tendency to drink alcohol, especially in large amounts.

   Social life among students was lively, libatious, and often irreverent.

   2017, Michael Wertheimer, Max Wertheimer and Gestalt Theory, page 38

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   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 hair

   1983, Marc Jordan and John Capek, “American Pop”, in Bodies and Souls, performed by The Manhattan Transfer

   […] 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

   Synonyms: boozy