babber
noun/ˈbæbə/UK/ˈbæbɚ/US
Etymology
From bab (“to fish for eels using a bab (bundle of live worms)”) + -er (agent noun suffix); the further etymology of bab is uncertain.
Definitions
A baby.
- We began the business of settling in. Tom took to watching over the babber, when it wasn't getting its milk.
- That babber of mine has been starting to talk lately and this morning when he saw me he said "da da da" very clearly! Proud moment.
A friend.
- Ow bis me babber? […] How's it going?
- Look, babber, I reckon there's been some sort of mistake. I'm not carrying on with nobody.
A fisherman using babs (“baits consisting of bundles of live worms”) to catch eels.
- It was pretty, too, to watch the lights in the town going out one by one, until, to borrow from Gray again, the world was left to darkness and to me, and the other eel-babbers.
- The babbers follow the eels, and you may see fifteen boats as close together as possible, babbing away, and catching as much as four stone-weight of eels per boat of a night.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for babber. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA