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Grammar : Adj
Spell : buhb-lee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbʌb li



Definition of bubbly

Origin :
  • 1590s, from bubble (n.) + -ly (2). Of persons, from 1939. The slang noun meaning "champagne" (1920) is short for bubbly water (1910).
  • adj sparkling
  • adj vivacious
Example sentences :
  • Who is that there in a green hat with little purple, bubbly things on it?
  • Extract from : « The Rubicon » by E. F. Benson
  • Talking of soup, sir, I could just do with a plateful of 'bubbly'.
  • Extract from : « A Sub and a Submarine » by Percy F. Westerman
  • Im a double blue at drawin corks and emptyin a bottle of bubbly.
  • Extract from : « The Message » by Louis Tracy
  • And so do you, Bubbly Upmore, if you are the man I have taken you for.
  • Extract from : « The Remarkable History of Sir Thomas Upmore, bart., M.P., formerly known as "Tommy Upmore" » by R. D. Blackmore
  • And how frisky they all were, how bubbly and unself-conscious!
  • Extract from : « Sea and Sardinia » by D. H. Lawrence
  • The lava was loose; all bubbly with holes like a piece of rotten pumice-stone.
  • Extract from : « The White Man's Foot » by Grant Allen
  • It's because of the reaction from misery to ecstasy that I'm so bubbly.
  • Extract from : « Set in Silver » by Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
  • After tea we went up to the bubbly mosque, which was in reality the Greek church.
  • Extract from : « The Luck of Thirteen » by Jan Gordon
  • "Don't be too bubbly about this thing," he cautioned Sarah Haddon.
  • Extract from : « Cheerful--By Request » by Edna Ferber
  • Four-eyed fish skittered over the water, pale as the ghosts of fish, and when quiet, showing only as a pair of bubbly eyes.
  • Extract from : « Jungle Peace » by William Beebe

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