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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acquaint with
acromyotonus
AMIChemE
Amontada
aporphin
asarcia
association reaction
berm for channel
bicolorin
biflavone
Budget of the U.S. Government
Carl Jung
cetenylene
chlordan poisoning
chromium tetrachloride
command signal
congenital osteomyelodysplasia
contrafissure
dekko
detailed load analysis
direct-examine
direction of light
distance abeam
Dripsey
emulisifier
enlarge lamp
federal tax
fluid intake
fly-catching
Full rudder!
full-elliptic spring
functional block diagram
gas sterilizer
genus monotropas
Goolma
gorgonin
greenhouse benches
hollow rubber cylinder or rectangular fender
initial peak sawtooth pulse
internal sea
international classification of patents
isobutyl-trimethyl-silicane
isocaproic alcohol
jus publicum
King Log
kissee
laryngoscopy
laser dye
latebrosa
low pass white noise random process
Mach stem effect
magic-religious medicine
marahuite
medicommissure
military quarters
moniliforme
mutualizes
non-manuals
nongeochemical
over-confident
particle classification
phacectomy
phase-propagation
poffertjes
pole plasm
polone
polyderm
post-fixes
prince-archbishop
pseudo-offline I-O
Quassia amara L.
Raetie
repaste
screenland
sedlar
self-to-self
ship wreckage
silent chain drive
single-acting pile-hammer
skinnydipping
smockfrock
specific bonding strength
stabilizing power
steinkopf
swizzed
table-cut
tantalum(v) chloride
thirty-two mo
to download
tormeys
trial by battle
troublement
tulostomataless
unimolecular elimination reaction
unsteady perturbation
unsummed
untimeliest
update operation
whammelling
winfrids
working temperature difference
zerkelite