What's the difference between bibulous and boozy?

Bibulous


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Readily imbibing fluids or moisture; spongy; as, bibulous blotting paper.
  • (v. t.) Inclined to drink; addicted to tippling.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Byrne's Nursie had the same indefatigable garrulousness, the same sense that she knew all the worst things about her charge – Miranda Richardson's bibulous Queen Elizabeth – so Gloriana and the rest had to indulge her.
  • (2) Lulu joined him on a bibulous book tour of the States.
  • (3) I couldn’t help but think that these pictures were some mere trick of my imagination – or maybe some leftover of an overly bibulous evening.
  • (4) For several years, he took a group of friends – "Farage's Foragers" – on bibulous holiday expeditions to the battlefields of France and Belgium.

Boozy


Definition:

  • (a.) A little intoxicated; fuddled; stupid with liquor; bousy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But how and when would the boozy, workshy, adorable slob who had spent 30 years twice a week in millions of British living rooms go?
  • (2) The assumption goes that it's a boozy, thrilling free-for-all, where brilliant ideas pour continuously out of the mouths of equally brilliant people.
  • (3) For a light lunch or boozy dinner there is the Agni Taverna, the outdoor restaurant where "pure poison" dripped when Mandelson, Osborne and Rothschild dined together.
  • (4) But to quote Hamlet, "the play's the thing" in Michael Grandage's cracking production, which makes an entertainingly boozy brew of humor both sweet and savage, melancholy sentimentality, lacerating sorrow and wicked cruelty."
  • (5) The promise of post-feminism after all was some Manolo Blahniks, a Mr Big or Darcy, some cracking sex toys, boozy nights out with the girls.
  • (6) First aired in the 1960s with Dean Martin as host, television roasts (Frank Sinatra and Ed Sullivan were among those roasted) were neutered versions of their boozy progenitors, but they were still barbed and borderline offensive – the "homage" to Sammy Davis Jr came very close to the bone on his race and chosen faith.
  • (7) I disagree: Baldwin is taking sides and backing Luke – the boozy, jazzy, truthful husband.
  • (8) The action ranges from set-piece speeches to packed fringe meetings and boozy parties.
  • (9) I enjoy listening to live music in the evenings or meeting with friends at our (rather boozy!)
  • (10) He outlined alleged purchases of more than $2,000 for interior furnishings, a boozy group dinner at the Press Club restaurant in Melbourne totalling about $2,200, videos and PlayStation games.
  • (11) It overran by hours and it was boozy and hilarious and it was the first time since I moved to New York that I had seen stand-ups trying stuff so obviously bespoke.
  • (12) A secret telegram sent by the US embassy in Azerbaijan revealed how Russia's defence minister, Anatoly Serdyukov, gave his own views after a boozy evening in February 2009 with his Azerbaijani counterpart, Safar Abiyev.
  • (13) What an irony if Nigel Farage MEP, a boozy metal trader from the under-regulated City of London, proved to be Britain's last, toxic contribution to the project.
  • (14) They followed this by a boozy session of rollerskating and organ music before we next saw Peggy swaggering into McCann looking like a rock star with her Wayfarers, Burt’s picture (see culture watch) and a cigarette dangling at a perfectly Richardsian angle.
  • (15) There was this awful voice.” John Gorton According to veteran journalist Laurie Oakes, former prime minister John Gorton once boarded a VIP jet in Melbourne after a boozy official dinner, and: He fell asleep, was woken a while later by the noise of the engines, and vomited.
  • (16) He learned to write plays by performing in taverns and inn yards; his speeches had to silence boozy peasants and heckling gentry.
  • (17) With hits like Stay With Me, I'd Rather Go Blind and Had Me a Real Good Time they were one of the most successful bands of the early 1970s and particularly successful live where, with their brand of boozy, good-time camaraderie, they bonded with the predominantly male audiences.
  • (18) The boozy lunches that were a hallmark of City life before deregulation in the 1980s are long gone.
  • (19) "), but even his friends have talked of a self-destructive streak, and by all accounts the 80s were a pretty boozy, promiscuous time.
  • (20) Shang, who has also played the leader in television dramas, is hired not for boozy weddings but staid official events.

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