ppl. a. [f. BIBBLE + -ING2.] a. Drinking; tippling. b. Dabbling with the bill like a duck drinking.

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1552.  Huloet, Bybblyng with the byll, bibulus.

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1565.  Golding, Ovid’s Met., III. (1593), 60. Little bibling Phyale, and Pseke that pretie mops.

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1619.  Sir A. Gorges, trans. Bacon’s Wisd. Anc., 32. An age againe that is dull bibling and reeling.

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