dubber

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdʌbə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdʌbɚ/
• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /ˈdʊbə/
• (Ireland) IPA^(key): /ˈdʊbəɹ/
• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /ˈdʌbəɹ/
• Rhymes: -ʌbə(ɹ)

From dub +‎ -er.

dubber (plural dubbers)

1. One who dubs, or gives a name.
   • 2002, Peter R. Coss, Maurice Hugh Keen, Heraldry, Pageantry, and Social Display in Medieval England, page 199:

     […] thus to knight someone lacking in virtue dishonoured the dubber.

2. A person who records or adds a dubbed soundtrack to a film.
3. (UK, slang, obsolete) A person's mouth or tongue.
   • 1857, Hidden Links; Or the Schoolfellows. A Tale, volume 2, page 233:

     "Well, Sal, you mum your dubber pretty generally, but when you do slacken your glib you may as well do it civilly."

   • 2010, Emily Hendrickson, The Fashionable Spy:

     "Shut your dubber. Think you're a regular duchess, you do, eh? I ain't answering no more questions."

From Arabic دُبَّاء (dubbāʔ, “bottle gourd”).

dubber (plural dubbers)

1. A globular vessel or bottle of leather, used in India to hold ghee, oil, etc.

• dabbah, dubba, dubbah

• jigger-dubber (etymologically unrelated)

• rubbed