A term of endearment in the Yiddish language. Bubby is an accepted alternative. Used primarily in places where there's a high concentration of Jews like in New York City.
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?
The rural American South, actually parts of the southeastern states Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, North and South Carolina, Virginia, Northern Florida, a piece of eastern Texas, Kentucky and debatably, parts of West Virginia.
Huntsville, Alabama is fairly mainstream America, but once you get south of the Tennessee River, you're in Bubbaland.
The spirit guide of cute white female college students who sometimes party waaaay too hard. Bubbalax Junkie is the inner black male thug/junkie that guides the actions of these coeds with his gentle wisdom.
"You need the horse to stay on course," Bubbalax whispers into Jennie's ear. during her biology midterm.