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drinking fountain
noun a small fountain which ejects a jet of water into the drinker's mouth. Compare bubbler, bubble tap, drinking tap, drink tap, fountain, water fountain.
Contributor's comments: This term was in use when I was a child in primary school in Queensland however when my mother returned to teaching in the 1960's she used the term bubbler.
Contributor's comments: In NW Tasmania in the 1960s, we drank from drinking fountains, and I had never heard of a bubbler until I moved to Canberra in the 1970s.
Contributor's comments: [Perth informant] 'Drinking Fountain' is still widely used, Australia wide as far as I can tell.