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bibliobibuli

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

The kind of people who read excessively.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: plural, plural-only

Examples

  • "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)

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History

Etymology

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