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In context|obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between fish and bubbler

is that fish is (obsolete) a counter, used in various games while bubbler is (obsolete) one who cheats.

As nouns the difference between fish and bubbler

is that fish is (countable) a cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills or fish can be (obsolete) a counter, used in various games while bubbler is something that emits bubbles.

As a verb fish

is to try to catch fish, whether successfully or not.

fish

English

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Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (compare (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).

Noun

  • (countable) A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
    • Salmon is a fish .
    The Sun Mother created all the fishes of the world.
    The Sun Mother created all the fish of the world.
    We have many fish in our aquarium.
  • Any animal that lives exclusively in water.
  • * 1774 , Oliver Goldsmith, History of the Earth and Animated Nature , Volume IV:
    • The whale, the limpet, the tortoise and the oyster… as men have been willing to give them all the name of fishes , it is wisest for us to conform.
  • (uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
  • *
    • The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta.
  • (countable) A period of time spent fishing.
    • The fish at the lake didn't prove successful.
  • (countable) An instance of seeking something.
    • Merely two fishes for information told the whole story.
  • (uncountable) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
  • (uncountable, derogatory, slang) A woman.
  • (countable, slang) An easy victim for swindling.
  • (countable, poker slang) A bad poker player.
  • (countable, nautical) A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
  • (nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
  • (countable, nautical) A torpedo.
  • * 1977 , (w, Richard O'Kane), Clear the Bridge: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang , Ballantine Books (2003), page 344:
    • The second and third fish went to the middle of her long superstructure and under her forward deck.
  • (zoology) A polyphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
  • # Class Myxini, the hagfish (no vertebra)
  • # Class Petromyzontida, the lampreys (no jaw)
  • # Within infraphylum Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates (also including Tetrapoda)
  • ## Class Chondrichthyes, cartilaginous fish such as sharks and rays
  • ## Superclass Osteichthyes, bony fish.
    • Usage notes
    The collective plural of fish'' is always ''fish'' in the UK; in the US, ''fishes'' is encountered as well. When referring to two or more kinds of fish, the plural is ''fishes .
    Synonyms
    * (potential swindling victim) mark * (card game) Go Fish * (bad poker player) donkey, donk
    Related terms
    * (adj) piscine, ichthyic, ichthyal (formal), fishy * (astronomical) The Fish, Pisces * (collective) piscifauna * (combinatorial form) ichthyo- (qualifier), pisci- (qualifier) * (fish-catcher) See fisher * (fish-eater) ichthyophage * (fish fossil) ichthyolite * (fish-infesting) piscolous * (fish-killing) piscicidal * (fish-like) icthyoid (formal), piscose (culinary), fishy, fishlike * (fish science) ichthyology (proper), piscatology * (fish scientist) ichthyologist * (fish shape) ichthus * (fish-shaped) pisciform, ichthyoid, ichthyomorphic * (fish vendor) fishmonger, piscitarian * (full of fish) pisculent * ichthyarchy * (skin disorder) ichthyosis (formal), fish-skin disease, porcupine disease * (state of being a fish) piscinity (formal), fishiness * (writer on fish) ichthyographer * (writing on fish) ichthyography
    Derived terms
    {{der3, big fish in a small pond , bony fish , cold fish , dragonfish , drink like a fish , fish and chips , fish bowl/fishbowl , fishbrain , fishcake , fisher , fisherman , fish-eating grin , fish finger , fishful , fishgig , fish hook/fishhook , fishkill , fish ladder, fishway , fishless , fishlike , fishling , fishly , fishmeal , fishmonger , fishmoth , fish out of water , fish paste/fishpaste , fish pond/fishpond , fishpound , fishpox , fishroom , fish sauce , fishskin , fishskin disease , fish slice , fish supper , fishtail , fish tank/fishtank , fish tape , fishwife , fishwoman , fishworm , fishy , , goatfish , goldfish , have other fish to fry , like shooting fish in a barrel , jellyfish , lumpfish , overfish , queer fish , sailfish , shellfish , silverfish , starfish , neither fish nor fowl , surgeonfish , swim like a fish , there's plenty more fish in the sea , tuna fish}}
    Hyponyms
    * (aquatic cold-blooded vertabrae with gills) Cephalaspidomorphi, Chondrichthyes, Osteichthyes * (food) seafood
    See also
    *

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (es)
  • To try to catch fish, whether successfully or not.
    • She went to the river to fish for trout.
  • To try to find something other than fish in (a body of water).
    • They fished the surrounding lakes for the dead body.
  • To attempt to find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
    • Why are you fishing through my things?
    He was fishing for the keys in his pocket.
  • To attempt to obtain information by talking to people.
    • The detective visited the local pubs fishing around for more information.
  • (cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
  • To attempt to gain.
    • The actors loitered at the door, fishing for compliments.
  • (nautical) To repair a spar or mast using a brace often called a fish (see NOUN above).
  • * 1970 , James Henderson, The Frigates, an account of the lesser warships of the wars from 1793 to 1815 , Wordsworth (1998), page 143:
    • the crew were set to replacing and splicing the rigging and fishing the spars.
    Synonyms
    * (try to catch a fish) angle, drop in a line * (try to find something) rifle, rummage * angle
    Derived terms
    {{der3, fishable , fisher , fishery , fishline , fishnet/fishnet stockings , fish out}}

    Etymology 3

    .

    Noun

    (es)
  • (obsolete) A counter, used in various games.
    • (Webster 1913)

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    bubbler

    English

    (wikipedia bubbler)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that emits bubbles.
  • * 1860 , Charles Stuart Forbes, Iceland; Its Volcanoes, Geysers and Glaciers , page 247,
    • In proof of this I can assert my success in extinguishing a youthful bubbler near Reykholt church.
  • An airstone for an aquarium.
  • A drinking fountain.
  • * 1919 February, , 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 , , 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 , , 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.
  • A device used for smoking marijuana, similar to a but with a section that holds water, like a bong
  • (obsolete) One who cheats.
    • All the Jews, jobbers, bubblers , subscribers, projectors, etc. — Alexander Pope.
  • (US) A fish of the Ohio river; so called from the noise it makes.

    • Usage notes

    In , used primarily in the phrase “(Benson Bubbler)”.

    Synonyms

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

    Anagrams

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    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