aquabibとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /æk.wə.bɪb/

名詞

aquabib (複数形 aquabibs)

1. (very rare, obsolete, derogatory) A teetotaler; one who does not consume alcohol.
   • 1883, The Louisville Medical News: a weekly journal of medicine and surgery: Volumes 15-16:

     Hydropots and aquabibs are epithets bestowed by the champions of alcohol in London upon the temperance folk.

   • 1949, Julia Cooley Altrocchi, The spectacular San Franciscans:

     Dwight L. Moody and John B. Gough, the great aquabib, had commanded attention […]

   • 1966, Robert Arnold Aubin, Topographical poetry in XVII-century Eng:

     While its more sober counterpart was directed to quite different ends by a pugnacious aquabib, William Henry Draper