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bibliobibuli

bibliobibuli noun: the kind of people who read excessively.

Noun

bibliobibuli pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) The kind of people who read excessively.
    • "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...

Origin of bibliobibuli

The term was coined in 1957 by H. L. Mencken, from the Greek "biblio-", meaning books, and the Latin "bibulous", from "bibere" (to drink).

Questions about bibliobibuli

What does bibliobibuli mean?
Bibliobibuli means the kind of people who read excessively.
What part of speech is bibliobibuli?
Bibliobibuli is a noun.

Words near bibliobibuli in the dictionary

  1. biblicistic
  2. biblicists
  3. biblidine
  4. biblike
  5. biblio-
  6. bibliobibuli
  7. biblioblog
  8. biblioblogger
  9. bibliobloggers
  10. biblioblogging
  11. biblioblogs

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