Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A drinker.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic A person who steals
plate from public houses. - noun archaic A drinking
bowl . - noun archaic a very good
drinker .
Etymologies
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from Old English.
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Examples
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The terms "bubber" for brother, and "titty for sister, with" nanna "for mother, and" mother "for grandmother, and father for all leaders in church and society, were so generally used, I was forced to believe that all belonged to one immense family.
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This dates back to when the steel mills and bubber plants started shutting down in places like Youngstown, Cleveland, etc. in 1970.
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"Ub-ber-ubber-er-bubber-yah!" remarked the man, sitting bolt upright, and looking about him, as if he had been attacked by wild animals.
The Voyage of the Hoppergrass Edmund Lester Pearson 1908
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