Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A drinking fountain.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun . One who cheats.
- noun A fish of the family Sciænidæ, Aplodinotus grunniens, the fresh-water drumfish, found in the waters of the Ohio river: so called from the peculiar noise it makes. Also called
bubbling-fish .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To cheat; to deceive.
- noun One who cheats.
- noun (Zoöl.) A fish of the Ohio river; -- so called from the noise it makes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Something that emits bubbles.
- noun New England, Australia A
drinking fountain . - noun A device used for smoking
marijuana , similar to a cannabis pipe but with a section that holds water, like abong - noun obsolete One who
cheats . - noun US A
fish of theOhio river ; so called from the noise it makes.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a public fountain to provide a jet of drinking water
- noun any of various devices in which air or some other gas is bubbled through a liquid
Etymologies
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Examples
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It’s a brain bubbler and less hardened folk may wind up having a stroke.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2002
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Banning bottles has proved a boon for the humble bubbler, which is enjoying a resurgence in schools and public spaces.
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"bubbler" - style water fountains, with two - or five-gallon jugs upended over an electric dispenser/cooler.
Sustainablog Shel Horowitz 2010
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We drank water out of a 'bubbler' rather than a water fountain.
World Hum 2009
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And of course Milwaukee is also home to the relatively unique terms "bubbler" (drinking fountain) and "TYME Machine" (ATM).
doggdot.us 2008
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Of course, this confused the hell out of me when I first moved down here! sam, "bubbler" is common in Northern New England as well.
doggdot.us 2008
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"The bubbler is a tank containing a mixture of water and hydrocarbons (gasoline, diesel, kerosene, crude oils and others derived from hydrocarbons ...).
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“Can I get a bottle of Perrier?” he begs, and the CIA officers lead him to a bubbler in the lobby for a swig of water that appears to revive him.
With Torture Banned, US Tries High School Awards Night Con Chapman 2011
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A helmet-to-helmet hit that led to a player being removed from competition was called a "snot bubbler" and considered a "clean hit."
Use your head? Dr. Mark Adickes 2010
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Hi, I have stummbled accoss this in my search to see if there is a larger screen available for the ipod touch, I do not want to replace the ipod, just be able to plug it in to a larger screen which I want to mount in a 1960′s bubbler juke box front.
bilby commented on the word bubbler
"The Goanna, like a lot of us raised in schools where you could simply wander up to a bubbler if you were thirsty, turned green with envy years ago when he realised various brilliant individuals and then big companies had cottoned on to the idea that you could fill a bottle with water - essentially, the same stuff that comes out of our taps and those handy old bubblers - and flog it off for somewhere between 250-10,000 times what it was worth, depending on the brand."
- Tony Wright, Bundy-on-tap gives the Immigration Department a liquid lesson, theage.com.au, 28 September 2009.
September 28, 2009
ruzuzu commented on the word bubbler
"A fish of the family Sciænidæ, Aplodinotus grunniens, the fresh-water drumfish, found in the waters of the Ohio river: so called from the peculiar noise it makes. Also called bubbling-fish."
--CD&C
February 21, 2012