bibber

From bib (“drink heartily”) +‎ -er (agent noun suffix); see bib (“clothing to prevent spills from mouth”). Bib is from Middle English bibben. First attested in the 1530s.^[1]

bibber (plural bibbers)

1. One given to drinking alcoholic beverages too freely; a tippler.

Chiefly used in composition, as in winebibber.

• tippler; See also Thesaurus:drunkard

• bib
• bibble

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɪ.bər/

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• Hyphenation: bib‧ber
• Rhymes: -ɪbər

From bibberen.

bibber m (plural bibbers, diminutive bibbertje n)

1. shiver, tremble

   Synonym: bibbering

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bibber

1. inflection of bibberen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

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bibber

1. inflection of bibbern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

bibber

1. alternative form of bebber

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 25