Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Northern U.S. A drinking fountain.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. . One who cheats.
- n. 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.
Wiktionary
- n. Something that emits bubbles.
- n. New England, Australia A drinking fountain.
- n. A device used for smoking marijuana, similar to a cannabis pipe but with a section that holds water, like a bong
- n. obsolete One who cheats.
- n. US A fish of the Ohio river; so called from the noise it makes.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To cheat; to deceive.
- n. One who cheats.
- n. (Zoöl.) A fish of the Ohio river; -- so called from the noise it makes.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a public fountain to provide a jet of drinking water
- n. any of various devices in which air or some other gas is bubbled through a liquid
Etymologies
- From bubble + -er. In the drinking fountain sense, coined and trademarked by the Kohler Water Works (now Kohler Company) of Kohler, Wisconsin in 1888, and so called because of the bubbling action of the water, particularly in a vertical stream. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It’s a brain bubbler and less hardened folk may wind up having a stroke.”
“Banning bottles has proved a boon for the humble bubbler, which is enjoying a resurgence in schools and public spaces.”
“bubbler" - style water fountains, with two - or five-gallon jugs upended over an electric dispenser/cooler.”
“We drank water out of a 'bubbler' rather than a water fountain.”
“And of course Milwaukee is also home to the relatively unique terms "bubbler" (drinking fountain) and "TYME Machine" (ATM).”
“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.”
“The bubbler is a tank containing a mixture of water and hydrocarbons (gasoline, diesel, kerosene, crude oils and others derived from hydrocarbons ...).”
““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.”
Fictionaut: With Torture Banned, US Tries High School Awards Night
“A helmet-to-helmet hit that led to a player being removed from competition was called a "snot bubbler" and considered a "clean hit.”
“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.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bubbler’.
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Massholese
"Everybody says words different,' said Ivy. 'Arkansas folks says 'em different, and Oklahomy folks says 'em different. And we seen a lady from Massachusetts, an' she said 'em different of all. Coul...
pissah, evacuation day, wicked, wicked, carriage, bubbler, patriot's day, frappe, packie, jimmies, so don't i, southie and 18 more...
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Bubbles
bubble, bubbles, Bubbles, boy in the bubble, dot-com bubble, soap bubble, antibubble, Local Bubble, bubble tea, bubble gum, bubblegum, bubble wrap and 54 more...
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Unwording
Outlawed words and books, like this.
samizdat, satanic verses, profanity, oriental, antilanguage, biddy, aviatrix, squaw, deaf-mute, border patrolman, cassandra, niggardly and 45 more...
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And another
retrocausality, brusque, gainsay, cheerio, jaundiced, chamois, caw, craw, fudge, bubbler, shebang, bolo and 244 more...
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spicolli's Words
terrapin, ravenous, fuck, sepulchral, garlic, suss, queer, curmudgeon, foodie, intricate, omphalos, subversion and 534 more...
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hober's Words
anglosphere, wiki, slither, cylon, satchel, faustian, ragamuffin, frak, salient, fervid, tartan, snowclone and 299 more...
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Scarequotes's Words
scare quotes, celebritot, crwth, seattleite, splatterpunk, concupiscent, pinxit, question setter, gotham, quagga, typewriter, daddy-o and 16 more...
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The Grifters
You're on the grift, same as me.
cheater, cheat, deceiver, deluder, dissimulator, swindler, faker, fleecer, flimflammer, fraud, fraudster, hustler and 81 more...
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hideehogal's Words
viridian, vermillion, concertina, cerulean, mishegosh, mystical, violaceous, scintilla, piquant, stroopwafel, quagmire, reticulated and 52 more...
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New Englander
Words and phrases said to be exclusive to N.E.
butt, clicker, drug store, elastic, fluff-a-nutter, frappe, grinder, hamburg, ice cream soda, jimmies, johnnie, leaf peepers and 9 more...
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Boston, you're my home.
Boston shibboleths.
To you retahded bastids who ask us to say Pahk the cah in Hahvahd Yahd: You can’t pahk your cah in the yahd, it’s a friggin’ campus. Pahk it in Hahvahd Squaya...three deckah, packie, pahty, staht, y'wanna staht, barrel, townie, statie, scrod, metco, so don't i, dunkies and 29 more...
Tweets
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ruzuzu "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 Feb 21, 2012
bilby "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. Sep 28, 2009