different between blabber vs bubbler

English

Etymology

From Middle English blaberen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?blæb.?(?)/
• Rhymes: -æb?(?)

Verb

blabber (third-person singular simple present blabbers, present participle blabbering, simple past and past participle blabbered)

1. To blather; to talk foolishly or incoherently.
   • 2014, Richard Szweda, Silenius' Gift

     He blabbered away about how he knew where some treasure was hidden and he would tell us if only we would swear to save his life.

2. To blab; to reveal a secret.
3. (Britain, obsolete) To stick out one's tongue.

Synonyms

• (to talk foolishly): See also Thesaurus:prattle
• (to let out a secret): See also Thesaurus:rat out

Translations

Noun

blabber (plural blabbers)

1. A person who blabs; a tattler; a telltale.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:gossiper

Related terms

• blab
• blabbermouth

Translations

Anagrams

• babbler, brabble

English

Etymology

From bubble +? -er.

Pronunciation

Noun

bubbler (plural bubblers)

1. Something that emits bubbles.
2. An airstone for an aquarium.
3. (Wisconsin, New England, Australia) A drinking fountain.
   • 1919 February, United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, Issue 250, page 39,

     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.

   • 1962 February, Repairs and Utilities: Refrigeration, Air Conditioning, Mechanical Ventilation, and Evaporative Cooling, United States Department of the Army, Technical Manual TM 5-670, page 82,

     Small self-contained water coolers have a limited capacity of cooled water. They are equipped with one bubbler or drinking fountain and have a capacity of about 5 gallons of cooled water per hour or less.

4. (cannabis subculture) A device used for smoking marijuana, similar to a cannabis pipe but with a section that holds water, like a bong
5. (obsolete) One who cheats.
6. (US) A freshwater fish of central North America, the freshwater drum, Aplodinotus grunniens; so called from the noise it makes.

Usage notes

In Portland, Oregon, used primarily in the phrase “Benson Bubbler”.

Synonyms

• (drinking fountain): drinking fountain, water fountain
• (device for smoking marijuana): bubbler bong

References

• Map of “bubbler, drinking fountain, water fountain” usage in the United States, Harvard Dialect Survey, Bert Vaux
• The Meaning of the Bubbler
• Use of bubbler as a synonym for drinking fountain, LINGUIST List 5.1377, Fri 02 Dec 1994
• Wisconsin Englishes: Words

Anagrams

• blubber