bibler

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A great drinker; a tippler. archaic
    — Mr. W. H. Cummings defends the character of Purcell from the remarks of Mr. J. F. Crowest, who in his anxiety to prove that wine has always stimulated music, makes Purcell a bibler.
  2. A protestant. archaic,derogatory,slang
    — as the Church-mens policy was great, so they forgot not to foresee a storm, in case Mary should depart without issue, and the Crown come to Elizabeth, who was, as the Germans called them, a Protestant, as the French, a Huguenot, or of the Religion, as the English, a Lollard, a Bibler, a Gospeller; wherefore there were many plots to take her away;
  3. A student at a boarding school who has the job of reading from the bible during meals.
    — But now I pray you let us hearken to the Scripture, for the bibler is not yet come to Tu autem.
  4. A flogging of six cuts on the small of the back in which the bible clerk and ostiarius held up the culprit's shirt while a school official administered the flogging. slang
    — "That's a lie! if you don't tell me where you got these verses this instant, I'll give you a bibler." —A bibler, you must know, reader , has nothing whatever to do with the Holy Scriptures, but is a particularly severe flogging, attended by certain forms to give the punishment more solemnity.
  5. One given to quoting the bible; a bible-thumper.
    — So in respect of this particular opposition, in the ones reiecting, the others vrging of traditions, the sadduces were termed […] Biblers, or Scripturists .

词形变化

biblers plural bibbeler alternative bibbler alternative biblers plural

词源

词源 1
See bib (transitive verb).
词源 2
Etymology tree
English bible
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English bibler
From bible + -er.
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