Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A device for cooling and dispensing drinking water.
Wiktionary
- n. A dispenser of cooled drinking water.
- n. figuratively A place in the workplace where employees gossip.
- adj. of the nature of things discussed around a water-cooler
WordNet 3.0
- n. a device for cooling and dispensing drinking water
Etymologies
- water + cooler. In sense of gossip, compare scuttlebutt, of similar origin. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Trade the office water cooler for an office prune-juice cooler.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘water cooler’.
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water phrases/words
how water is used
water-dress, water-door, water-eft, water-eel, water-doe, water-dark, water-crow, water-crake, water-day, water-dam, water-cut, water-cell and 906 more...
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Gossip Column
What's the scuttlebutt? Inspired by an OUP blog post.
clacket, chatterbox, tonguester, prattle-basket, whitter-whatter, gabble, chelp, chirm, tittle-tattle, bribble-babble, snatter, psilology and 35 more...
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