Bibler

Quick meaning: Bibler is a noun meaning A student at a boarding school who has the job of reading from the bible during meals.

Meaning

A student at a boarding school who has the job of reading from the bible during meals.

More Meanings

1. One given to quoting the bible; a bible-thumper.
2. (archaic) A great drinker; a tippler.
3. (archaic, slang, derogatory) A protestant.
4. (slang, Winchester College) A flogging of six cuts on the small of the back in which the bible clerk and ostiarius held up the culprit's shirt while a school official administered the flogging.

Example Sentences

It was also said that the son was a bibler and the father a total abstainer.

There credence and their language was alike, All Babel-biblers they did dead dislike.

Mr. W. H. Cummings defends the character of Purcell from the remarks of Mr. J. F. Crowest, who in his anxiety to prove that wine has always stimulated music, makes Purcell a bibler.

Somehow the popular idealism pictures the bibler as a stout hearty individual of merry moods and good vigour, while the typical total-abstinence fanatic arises in our minds as one of colourless vitality and sombre physiognomy.

Word Forms

• biblers
• bibbeler
• bibbler

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