In a newsgroup I frequent, someone uses this word in his signature line. Since I'm sure he wants someone to take the bait, I don't wish to. However, Googling it drawsa blank. Has anybody ever come across this word?

Most I can make out of it is the bibe part might be related to the Latin bibere. Still doesn't make much sense to me; two-fisted drinkers?

I found wome odd-ball sites apparently about motorcycles referring to " 'bentsts" and recumbents vs uprights.But I couldn't find anything about frogs riding them.

>Most I can make out of it is the bibe part might be related to the Latin bibere. Still doesn't make much sense to me; two-fisted drinkers?

The guy's German, so that may make sense - a stein in each hand, vielleicht.

Nunc est bibendum: Now it is time to drink .

Nunc est bibendum

I'll drink to that!

Hearkens back to Mencken's ombibulous....which he coined to mean "I drink everything" [type of alcoholic beverage, that is]. He used to say, "I'm an ombibulous drinker." [there's an old thread on this here if anyone wants to search it] So...

That coupled with ambi-, and bibere seem to indicate an attempt to quantify and diversify the practice of something...a two-fisted dentist!?

ambi-bib-entists...hmmm, entists...a two-fisted lover of Ents! A LOTR allusion! OR, a two-fisted drinker of Ent liqueur (distilled from their essence, not made by the tree-creatures)

'N mebbe you're right, AnnaS, mebbe the snow is getting to me! The weather kind, that is! A nice shot of Ent whiskey, anyone?

Next item on the menu...Gollumburgers...no,no,no...I like Gollum too much...Orcburgers more like it, I think!

Dear WO'N: I'm surprised that some of Menken's many victims did not suggest he also
imbibed venom or even less tasty things.

an ambibibentist is one with a talent for directing a stream of tobacco juice, after chewing, into a spitoon from a long ways away.

Back in the days of silent movies, there was a bit part actor whose trademark was hitting the
spitoon with a jet so massive the spitoon wobbled violently. Damned if I can remember his
name.

A Professional Spitter:

http://www.dezmin.com/MTarchives/000120.html

Actually, the champion spitters of all time were a very small sect of Hassidic Jews who lived in Tennessee. In fact, they even concocted their own tobacco blend, designed to keep a consistent chaw and provide the right consistency to the projectile. My father heard about it years ago when he worked for Brown and Williamson. They sent him to Tennessee to track down the fellows who had invented this form of chewing tobacco. He saw a bunch of guys at the end of a street practicing their spitting, and stopped a kid who had a handful of tobacco. "Pardon me, boy, is that the Chattanooga Jews' chews?"

one with a talent for directing a stream of tobacco juice

Wanna etymologize that for us, tsuwm?

Not that I don't believe you. Just curious.

Dear Faldage: you accidentally reminded me of sign I saw many years ago in a gas service station
restroom: "We aim to keep this room clean. Your aim will help."

one with a talent for directing a stream of tobacco juice

F>Wanna etymologize that for us, tsuwm?

and give away my hogwash® methodologies? sure, it's from ambia, a euphemism for the tobacco juice spat after chewing + bi, doubly, + bent, braced or aimed + -ist, designating a person who practices some art or method

how could you not believe this finely crafted definition?!

how could you not believe this finely crafted definition?!

Pshaw!