babber

noun3

1. •
   (informal) A friend.

   • Ow bis me babber? […] How's it going? — 2012
2. •
   (informal) A baby.

   • We began the business of settling in. Tom took to watching over the babber, when it wasn't getting its milk. — 2014
3. •
   A fisherman using babs (“baits consisting of bundles of live worms”) to catch eels.

   • It was pretty, too, to watch the lights in the town going out one by one, until, to borrow from Gray again, the world was left to darkness and to me, and the other eel-babbers. — 1876