bubbler
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8.1
- noun
- /ˈbʌb.lɚ/
- US
:
fuente de agua
- So here's your there's your bubbler and this thing works.
- water at the bubbler
Examples
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Today it sits atop a bubbler available to pedestrians who frequent the part of the city known as Pioneer Square.
Academic text (1998) -
Then Norma told me it bothered everyone that I brought my plant to the bubbler in the cafeteria to water it.
Fiction book (1994) -
Walking through the library trying to get oriented to Smith and feeling rather forlorn in that class-oriented environment, I came across a man at a bubbler consuming water in plenty.
Academic text (2004) -
Prior to that, they were just protectors of traditional American values who believed that the glorious sanctity of whites-only water bubblers must be protected at all costs.
Blog text (29) -
Children can quench their thirst at the bubbler after playing in the park.
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In my school, we have a bubbler near the entrance for students to drink fresh water.
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On hot days, it's refreshing to stop by the bubbler for a cool drink of water.
Synonyms
120
1.0
A structure that sends water into the air for decoration or drinking
17
1.0
A public tap that gives water you can drink
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1.0
A public tap that gives water for people to drink
3
2.1
A machine that cools and gives drinking water
A machine that gives cold drinking water in offices or public places
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bubbler comes from the word bubble and the ending -er, so it originally meant 'one that makes bubbles'. In parts of the United States, especially Wisconsin, a public drinking fountain was called a bubbler because the water often 'bubbles' up from the spout, and so the word now means a place to get a drink.