Babber

//ˈbæbə// noun

noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A baby.

    "We began the business of settling in. Tom took to watching over the babber, when it wasn't getting its milk."

  2. 2
    A fisherman using babs (“baits consisting of bundles of live worms”) to catch eels. East-Anglia

    "Another way of taking eels, and by far the more ingenious, is that known as "babbing," or "bobbing." A series of large worms are strung on cobbler's worsted and coiled into a knot. […] I have known a couple of "babbers" to take as many as four or five stone of eels in a single night."

  3. 3
    A friend.

    "Ow bis me babber? […] How's it going?"

Synonyms

All synonyms
bullyamigobabbabbybabebabe in arms

Example

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"We began the business of settling in. Tom took to watching over the babber, when it wasn't getting its milk."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Probably a modification of baby: compare babby (“baby”) (Britain, dialectal).

Etymology 2

From bab (“to fish for eels using a bab (bundle of live worms)”) + -er (agent noun suffix); the further etymology of bab is uncertain.

Related phrases

alright me babberalright my babberbabber-lipped

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