A term used in New England, especially by people from Rhode Island and Massachusetts, to describe what most other folks call a [water fountain]. To the New Englander, the term water fountain tends to remind them of a regular, show-offy fountain.
> NEer: 'Scuse me, wheah's the bubblah?
> Non-NEer: The what?
> NEer: The bubblah.
> Non-NEer: I beg your pardon?
> NEer: Ya know, the thing ya can get a drink from.
> Non-NEer: *chuckling* You mean the water fountain?
> NEer: Watuh fountain? Ya mean this dump has a watuh fountain?!
> Non-NEer: I beg your pardon?

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abrashiocephalus
adiabatic engine
adiponitrile
all weather remote sensing
anatoxins
arc-drop loss
Bensley's neutral safranin stain
brood capsule
buck for something
building block technique
canalized character
cape fears
choke plug
co-use
completely shrouded impeller
compnet
compulsory trade unionism
computer panel
counter-electromotive force control
cullum
deadshit
decitabine
dehydrosongoring
dilute acid wash
doctor test
easy-to-digest
egg coke
endurance performance
ephemeral lake
EUTAENIOPHORIDAE
film mixture
flings off
formation center
free of blowholes
fuel cell detector
gender benders
general valve
Gerolstein
hidden heat
horn-rimmed
huntedly
hydrogen blistering corrosion
I Esdra
inspection copy
jainer
Jasminum lang
keyboard operator
Kramsk
la cueca (bolivia)
Lasiorhinus
leatherheads
left heart bypass system
leg-pulling
Leirhöfn
maximax utility
minimum-damage-fire-control theory
neroni
non commercial expenses
noti
oblique magnetization
pararescuemen
pauilion
people pleasers
photo chromism
pig-in-a-poke
placental souffle
prolixness
pseudeponymous
pusher-click spring
radius of sphere
radix-polygoni multiflori
reduced crude oil
reserved-channel principle
residual-based test
resupinatus
rotary straightening
run heavily
sacculated kidney
sahs
sancoche
scahill
single- purpose pliers for gripping and manipulating
soil-plant relationship
soneted
spring-tree
station keeping radar
superficial deterioration
sympathetic neuroblastoma
synchronous UART
Table, I.de la
talismans
tapered distribution
tenable
thrombasthenic
toroidal swirl chamber
trademark act
trust-controls
usable area
waiting for qi arrival
weak disturbance
yellow soybean
Yoribon