[f. BUBBLE v. + -ER.]
† 1. One who gets up bubble-companies; a swindler, cheat. Obs.
1720. Pope, Lett. to Digby, 20 July. All the Jews, jobbers, bubblers, subscribers, [etc.].
c. 1778. Conquerors, 9. Bubblers and bubbled meanly Take their stand.
2. ‘A fish found in the Ohio river. Its name is derived from the singular grunting noise which it makes.’ Bartlett, Dict. Amer.
