babber

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈbæbə/    美 /ˈbæbɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. 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. A friend.
    — Ow bis me babber? […] How's it going?

词形变化

babbers plural babbers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
alright me babber alright my babber babber-lipped
相关词
bab babby

词源

词源 1
Probably a modification of baby: compare babby (“baby”) (Britain, dialectal).
词源 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.
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