fond of drinking; drinking readily or freely; frequently thirsty; bibulous · that sucks in or absorbs; absorbent, porous, bibulous · ready to hear; thirsty to listen; listening
köken: From bibō (“drink”) + -ulus, from Proto-Italic *pibō, from Proto-Indo-European *píph₃eti, from the root *peh₃- (“drink”).
[…] ; potores bibuli media de nocte Falerni oderunt porrecta negantem pocula, quamvis nocturnos iures te formidare tepores.