[f. BIB v. + -ING2.]
1. That bibs; given to drinking.
1594. Carew, Huarte’s Exam. Wits, xiv. (1596), 253. If the same be gluttonous, greedy, and bibbing.
1656. Dugard, Gate Lat. Unl., § 623. Ravening and bibbing belly-gods.
1833. Fraser’s Mag., VIII. 44. He is now a … port-bibbing, gout-bemartyred believer in the Tory faith.
2. Of things: Absorbent; = BIBULOUS 1.
1633. P. Fletcher, Purple Isl., V. xvii. 51. Unto a bibbing substance down convoying. Ibid., V. xxvi. The bibbing third draws it together nigher.
