[f. BIB v. + -ING1.] Continued or repeated drinking; tippling.
a. 1400. Alexander (Stev.), 154. Bacus he was braynewode for bebbing of wynes.
1563. Homilies, II. Agst. Gluttony (1859), 298. They that give themselves … to bibbing and banqueting.
1835. L. Hunt, Jrnl., No. 70. 256. The bibbing of bad water … meets with encouragement.
b. attrib., as in bibbing-house (= tippling-house).
1587. Churchyard, Worth. Wales (1876), 14. The Danes likewise, doe lead a bibbing life.
1687. T. Brown, Lib. Consc., in Dk. Buckhm.’s Wks. (1705), II. 131. It wou’d sound oddly to turn it [the Meeting-house] into a Bibbing-House.
