Bubbler

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bubbler \Bub"bler\, v. t.
     To cheat; to deceive.
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           She has bubbled him out of his youth.    --Addison.
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           The great Locke, who was seldom outwitted by false
           sounds, was nevertheless bubbled here.   --Sterne.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bubbler \Bub"bler\, n.
     1. One who cheats.
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              All the Jews, jobbers, bubblers, subscribers,
              projectors, etc.                      --Pope.
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     2. (Zool.) A fish of the Ohio river; -- so called from the
        noise it makes.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bubbler
       n 1: a public fountain to provide a jet of drinking water [syn: {drinking
            fountain}, {water fountain}]
       2: any of various devices in which air or some other gas is
          bubbled through a liquid