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Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : buhb-uhl
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbʌb əl



Definition of bubble

Origin :
  • early 14c., perhaps from Middle Dutch bobbel (n.) and/or Middle Low German bubbeln (v.), all probably of echoic origin. Bubble bath first recorded 1949. Of financial schemes originally in South Sea Bubble (1590s), on notion of "fragile and insubstantial."
  • noun globule of air
  • verb foam, froth up, especially with sound
Example sentences :
  • The crest is a bubble, and really the effect produced by it is most ludicrous.
  • Extract from : « Vivian Grey » by Earl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli
  • The captain's triumphant exuberance continued to bubble over.
  • Extract from : « Cap'n Dan's Daughter » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • His mother listened for the simmer and bubble of the water on the fire.
  • Extract from : « The Shadow of a Crime » by Hall Caine
  • The wild justice of this idea made the blood to bubble in his ears.
  • Extract from : « The Manxman » by Hall Caine
  • Life itself is a bubble and a skepticism, and a sleep within a sleep.
  • Extract from : « Essays, Second Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The South Sea bubble has sapped the confidence in the government of all men of weight.
  • Extract from : « The Lion's Skin » by Rafael Sabatini
  • Then the teakettle began to bubble and sing and that invited confidences too.
  • Extract from : « The Wall Street Girl » by Frederick Orin Bartlett
  • That bubble has burst at last, and can never be blown again.
  • Extract from : « Barrington » by Charles James Lever
  • A few Dutch farmers have pricked the bubble of her military reputation.
  • Extract from : « The Traitors » by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
  • But Norby's hopes were at the very highest when the bubble burst.
  • Extract from : « The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa » by Paul Barron Watson

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