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Bubbling

adjective

1.

Emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation. Synonyms: bubbly, effervescing, foaming, foamy, frothy, spumy. "Foamy (or frothy) beer"

2.

Marked by high spirits or excitement. Synonyms: effervescent, frothy, scintillating, sparkly. "Scintillating personality" , "A row of sparkly cheerleaders"

Bubble

verb

(past & past part. bubbled; pres. part. bubbling)

1.

Form, produce, or emit bubbles.

2.

Flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise. Synonyms: babble, burble, guggle, gurgle, ripple.

3.

Rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles.

4.

Cause to form bubbles.

5.

Expel gas from the stomach. Synonyms: belch, burp, eruct.

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"Bubbling" Quotes from Famous Books

... Saladin and let Dot down to the ground, that she might gather some of the bright flowers growing by the wayside; and at a spring of bubbling icy-cold water both halted and quaffed their fill, after which Saladin was allowed to push his nose into the clear fluid and do ...

— The Story of Red Feather - A Tale of the American Frontier • Edward S. (Edward Sylvester) Ellis

... the life. Priscilla took a single glimpse of the shuddering, bloody, oily work of cutting in the carcass, and then she fled to her cabin and remained there steadfastly until the long task was done. The smoke from the bubbling try pots, and the persistent smell of boiling blubber sickened her; and the grime that descended over everything appalled her dainty soul. Not until the men had cleaned ship did she go on deck again; and even then she scolded Joel for ...

— All the Brothers Were Valiant • Ben Ames Williams

... and yet as he worked there was in his face the set of stubborn purpose, and in his eyes the glow of aspiration. He tried to make each line beautiful and firm and swift and pure. When he succeeded, he felt within him the bubbling of a sweet contentment. This would be followed by dissatisfaction, renewed ...

— The Trimming of Goosie • James Hopper

... and shop in those narrow picturesque streets was a study in itself, and so were the quaint groups of people we met, and who gazed eagerly at us. We looked into the public baths, two oblong tanks, into which the mineral springs came bubbling up, thick and yellow, and strongly impregnated with iron, at a temperature of 112 deg.. They are covered in, and there is a rough passage round them. Here, in the bathing season, people of both sexes stand in rows, packed as ...

— A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' • Annie Allnut Brassey

... the same when down in the hotel-yard they got into the small and decrepit victoria which was destined to take them and their luggage to Brighton. It was the same, but more so. They were both so pleased with themselves that their joy was bubbling continually out in manifestations that could only be described as infantile. The mere drive through the village, with the pony whisking his tail round corners, and the driver steadying the perilous hat-box with his left hand, was so funny ...

— The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories • Arnold Bennett

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