ombibulous
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Coined by H. L. Mencken. The term omnibibulous existed before ombibulous.
Adjective[edit]
ombibulous (comparative more ombibulous, superlative most ombibulous)
- Synonym of omnibibulous
- 2021, David Profumo, The Lightning Thread: Fishological Moments and The Pursuit of Paradise, Scribner UK, →ISBN:
- With age, I have come to be a little less ombibulous - beer seems excessively diuretic, brandy makes me walk like Andy Pandy, and I have had to foreswear previous cocktail delights such as Depth Bomb [...]
- 1963, John P. Poe, “Class Notes”, in Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume 64:
- The class was not only omnivorous, but also ombibulous as well.
- 1941, H. L. Mencken, Newspaper Days, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 199:
- He was magnificently ombibulous, drinking anything that contained ethyl alcohol [...]