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dubber

noun
/ˈdʌbə/UK/ˈdʌbɚ/US/ˈdʊbə/

Etymology

From Arabic دُبَّاء (dubbāʔ, “bottle gourd”).

  1. borrowed from دُبَّاء — “bottle gourd”

Definitions

  1. One who dubs, or gives a name.

    • […]thus to knight someone lacking in virtue dishonoured the dubber.

  2. A person who records or adds a dubbed soundtrack to a film.

  3. A person's mouth or tongue.

    • "Well, Sal, you mum your dubber pretty generally, but when you do slacken your glib you may as well do it civilly."
    • "Shut your dubber. Think you're a regular duchess, you do, eh? I ain't answering no more questions."
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A globular vessel or bottle of leather, used in India to hold ghee, oil, etc.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dubber. 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