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babbers

babbers is the plural of babber.

Meaning of babber

Noun (1)

babber (plural babbers)

  1. A baby.
    • We began the business of settling in. Tom took to watching over the babber, when it wasn't getting its milk.2014, Anna Freeman, chapter 23, in The Fair Fight, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, →ISBN, part 10 (Ruth), page 403
  2. A friend.
    • Ow bis me babber? […] How's it going?2012, Robert Andrews, Keith Drew, “Bristol and around”, in The Rough Guide to Bath, Bristol and Somerset: Includes Salisbury and Stonehenge, London: Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 82

Noun (2)

babber (plural babbers)

  1. (East-Anglia) A fisherman using babs (“baits consisting of bundles of live worms”) to catch eels.
    • 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.1868 September, “The Norfolk Broads”, in Anthony Trollope, editor, Saint Pauls. A Monthly Magazine, volume II, London: Virtue and Co., […], →OCLC, page 724

Questions about babbers

What is babbers the plural of?
Babbers is the plural of babber.

Words near babbers in the dictionary

  1. Babbagian
  2. babbed
  3. babbelas
  4. babber
  5. babber-lipped
  6. babbers
  7. babbie
  8. babbies
  9. babbing
  10. babbit
  11. babbited

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