ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Bubbler

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation [bʌb.lə] · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Bubbler is a noun meaning Something that emits bubbles.

Meaning

Something that emits bubbles.

More Meanings

  1. An airstone for an aquarium.
  2. (Wisconsin, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Australia) A drinking fountain.
  3. (cannabis subculture) A device used for smoking marijuana, similar to a cannabis pipe but with a section that holds water, like a bong
  4. (US) A freshwater drum (Aplodinotus grunniens), of central North America.
  5. (obsolete) One who cheats.

Example Sentences

In proof of this I can assert my success in extinguishing a youthful bubbler near Reykholt church.
...above all the Jews, jobbers, bubblers, ſubſcribers, projectors, directors, governors, treaſurers, &c.
There are many types of fountain from which persons may drink by taking the nozzle of the bubbler into the mouth, and this practice is common; furthermore, there are many types in the use of which water from the lips of the consumer falls back onto the bubbler at the point of outlet.
1939 June, Ella Gardner, Short-Time Camps: A Manual for 4-H Leaders, United States Department of Agriculture, Miscellaneous Publication No. 346, page 11, Plans for an inexpensive bubbler or drinking fountain that have been worked out by the 4-H Club department in Massachusetts are shown in figure 4.

Word Forms

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Related dictionary entries include flask, fritted, hubble-bubble, bubble-up, bubblement, burbler.

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