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Bubbling   /bˈəbəlɪŋ/  /bˈəblɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Bubble  v. i.  (past & past part. bubbled; pres. part. bubbling)  
1.
To rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated; to contain bubbles. "The milk that bubbled in the pail."
2.
To run with a gurgling noise, as if forming bubbles; as, a bubbling stream.
3.
To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound. "At mine ear Bubbled the nightingale and heeded not."


adjective
bubbling  adj.  
1.
Giving off bubbles; of a liquid. (Narrower terms: foaming, frothing; effervescent; boiling)
2.
Stimulatingly lively, witty, and entertaining; of people.
Synonyms: effervescent, scintillating, sparkling, sparkly, vivacious.





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"Bubbling" Quotes from Famous Books



... other as well as they could and went down the road. A little way on they found a tiny spring, bubbling out of the hillside and falling into a rough stone basin surrounded by draggled hart's-tongue ferns, now hardly green at all. Here the children washed their hands and faces and dried them on their pocket-handkerchiefs, which always, ...
— The Phoenix and the Carpet • E. Nesbit
... confidingly in her circling arms, she was whispering softly into one velvety ear, oh, so velvety! as it rested against her ripe, red lips, so soft, so perfect in their molding. The ear moved slightly back and forth, speaking its silent language. The nostrils emitted the faintest bubbling acknowledgment of the whispered words. The beautiful eyes were so expressive in their ...
— Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home • Gabrielle E. Jackson
... Dr. James Ruthven, blood bubbling from his lips with every shallow breath he could draw, fought the stealthy tide of blackness which crept up his brain, his stubborn will holding to rags of consciousness, refusing to acknowledge the pain ...
— The Defiant Agents • Andre Alice Norton
... you are making me very wretched!" she would sometimes say to her, the tears standing in her eyes as she observed her stifling in her efforts to restrain a sudden bubbling up of ...
— A Love Episode • Emile Zola
... the prisoner's behalf. As a fellow-correspondent—a Frenchman—had remarked to him earlier in the trial, whatever the verdict, they would hardly martyrize the man lest at a later date further question as to his guilt should arise and all Europe be set bubbling anew upon ...
— The Rocks of Valpre • Ethel May Dell


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