Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bibliobibuli

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bib-lio-bibu-li
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The kind of people who read excessively.

Example Sentences

""There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing." - Minority Report: H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)"

Etymology

The term was coined in 1957 by H. L. Mencken, from the Greek "biblio-", meaning books, and the Latin "bibulous", from "bibere" (to drink).

Questions

What does bibliobibuli mean?: The kind of people who read excessively.
Where does bibliobibuli come from?: The term was coined in 1957 by H. L. Mencken, from the Greek "biblio-", meaning books, and the Latin "bibulous", from "bibere" (to drink).

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