 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
bubbling
adjective
1: emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or
fermentation; "bubbling champagne"; "foamy (or frothy)
beer" [syn: {bubbly}, {foaming}, {foamy}, {frothy}, {effervescing}]
2: marked by high spirits or excitement; "his fertile
effervescent mind"; "scintillating personality";
"sparkling conversation"; "a row of sparkly cheerleaders"
[syn: {effervescent}, {scintillating}, {sparkling}, {sparkly}]
3: covered with or resembling small bubbles as from being
agitated by beating or heating; "the bubbling candy
mixture"; "a cup of foaming cocoa"; "frothy milkshakes";
"frothy waves"; "spumy surf" [syn: {foaming}, {foamy}, {frothing},
{spumous}, {spumy}, {sudsy}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bubble \Bub"ble\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Bubbled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Bubbling}.] [Cf. D. bobbelen, Dan. boble. See {Bubble}, noun]
1. To rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated;
to contain bubbles.
The milk that bubbled in the pail. --Tennyson.
2. To run with a gurgling noise, as if forming bubbles; as, a
bubbling stream. --Pope.
3. To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound.
At mine ear
Bubbled the nightingale and heeded not. --Tennyson.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
bubbling \bubbling\ adjective
1. giving off bubbles; -- of a liquid. [Narrower terms:
{foaming, frothing}; {effervescent}; {boiling}]
[WordNet 1.5]
2. stimulatingly lively, witty, and entertaining; -- of
people.
Syn: effervescent, scintillating, sparkling, sparkly,
vivacious.
[WordNet 1.5]
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