Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A mechanical device designed to dispense small quantities of drinking water, usually in work - or other public places.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a public fountain to provide a jet of drinking water
Examples
“Gurgling water surging inside the water fountain pipes gave Griffin an idea.”
“Cara left her parents making polite conversation with Madeline Brazelton’s parents and made straight for the water fountain in the corner.”
“Twenty years later I was most compelled by the peripheral characters—the ones I wasn’t supposed to care about; the ones that were planted for laughs—like the racist joke that was Long Duk Dong, and the girl in the neck brace, an early appearance by Joan Cusack, who kept dousing herself at the water fountain or tipping backward out of her chair.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘water fountain’.
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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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It's All Free
Things people are giving away on a bulletin board I frequent.
fairy dresses, microwave oven, bluetooth mouse, puppies, capsicum seedlings, dvds, pedometer, laptop, bicycle, mini-grill, bag of baby bottles, tent and 245 more...
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TN5 Lesson 60
reception, soon, dressed, sweetheart, noticed, nightgown, evening gown, lobby, water fountain, left-hand, right-hand, receptionist and 22 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for water fountain.
ruzuzu That's how I roll. Oct 8, 2011
leaden Egad! A chocolate-covered monocled unicyclist! Oct 8, 2011
ruzuzu *falls off monocycle and lands in chocolate fountain* Oct 7, 2011
reesetee Yum. Say, you could have dipped those free pineapples in chocolate, you know. ;-) Feb 19, 2011
hernesheir I drank pineapple juice from a fountain at a Dole pineapple cannery in Hawaii - not a big deal since I'd planted and picked pineapples for the company (Castle and Cook) on Lanai all summer, and was allowed to take home and eat 2 ripe pineapples from the field each day, but still - how cool is that? Endless fresh pineapple juice from a fountain? I'd take that over a chocolate fountain, once I got sick of chocolate. Feb 18, 2011
PossibleUnderscore *hovers behind the refreshment pouches*
You're all going to be sticky and yuck... Feb 18, 2011
ruzuzu *is convinced*
*promptly falls right back in* Feb 18, 2011
reesetee Ptero's right.
*swan dives into chocolate refreshment dispenser* Feb 18, 2011
pterodactyl *dons mask, snorkel, and swim fins, then "falls" into chocolate fountain* Feb 18, 2011
pterodactyl You don't need a good reason to fall into a chocolate fountain. You do, however, need a good reason to get out of one. Feb 18, 2011
ruzuzu Could someone hand me a "refresh yourself" pouch? Feb 18, 2011
ruzuzu *splutters* Feb 18, 2011
ruzuzu Zounds!
*replaces monocle, then promptly falls into the chocolate fountain for no good reason at all* Feb 18, 2011
reesetee *monocled raconteur ambles in*
*retrieves ruzuzu's monocle from champagne glass by drinking the champagne*
*cleans monocle and hands it to ruzuzu*
*departs* Feb 18, 2011
ruzuzu But of course. The aqueous refreshment dispenser is just there, next to the chocolate refreshment dispenser and the "refresh yourself" pouches.
*attempts to twirl painted-on mustache as monocle drops into champagne glass* Feb 18, 2011
pterodactyl I've clearly set off a bubbling storm of controversy with my question, so, in an effort to bring peace to all sides, I propose we coin a new phrase to refer to these devices. You know, something that everyone can agree on.
How about "aqueous refreshment dispenser"? This would allow us to say things like "I say, old fellow, can you direct me to the nearest aqueous refreshment dispenser?", a turn of phrase that fits well with the monocle and bowler hats that we're all wearing. Feb 18, 2011
reesetee Bilby: Eeew.
Yarb: True. I suppose I meant potable water only. Feb 16, 2011
bilby I don't know what I call them!
*wails*
Can't I just point for a while? Feb 16, 2011
PossibleUnderscore Wow. I think I've just been put off bubblers forever.
What do you call them? Feb 16, 2011
bilby I hate bubbler (sorry P_U). Sounds like a birdie bidet where a babbler or a warbler goes to rinse shit off his bum in a torrent of effervescence. Feb 15, 2011
yarb bubbler is new to me and just a teensy bit creepy. Feb 15, 2011
yarb reesetee: but water tpically fountains in... fountains, no? Of the ornamental variety I mean. Feb 15, 2011
PossibleUnderscore I exclusively use bubbler, which may (or may not, mind you) be a little childish, but I have never actually heard anyone say 'drinking/ water fountain' except on the screens or in print. Feb 15, 2011
reesetee Hmm. I think I use water fountain. Maybe it's because water doesn't usually fountain elsewhere. I mean, in most places it appears in a glass or bottle and does not spurt up toward my face. :-) Feb 15, 2011
yarb Ha ha. I suppose I use both terms although drinking fountain obviously makes more sense. Feb 15, 2011
ruzuzu I'm more likely to say "drinking fountain" when I'm at a park with some other large public fountain. When I'm inside I might say "water fountain," or just "fountain." However, I have never in my life called one a bubbler. Feb 15, 2011
pterodactyl Wordniks: Do you use "water fountain" or "drinking fountain" to refer to the machine that people drink from?
Yesterday someone asked me for directions to the "water fountain", and the phrase struck me as odd. Why do we specify that it's a "water" fountain? Do we need to differentiate it from fountains that dispense other substances?
Yes, that must be it. Next time someone asks me where the water fountain is, I'll say "It's over there, next to the chocolate fountain."
(...oh, I wish...) Feb 15, 2011