Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Emitting or exhibiting bubbles; giving out a sound such as is caused by bubbles; gurgling.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. giving off bubbles; -- of a liquid.
- adj. stimulatingly lively, witty, and entertaining; -- of people.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. marked by high spirits or excitement
- adj. emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation
Examples
“I've even started to see the term bubbling up in pop culture, used by people who clearly get it.”
“Here is a place we were never meant to see: a remnant sea of oil, bubbling from the spend depths of a deposit.”
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“In fact, by quarter's end, concerns about Europe were once again bubbling to the surface.”
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“We love the rich, savory flavor of eggs fried in bubbling hot olive oil and the way the oil makes the whites puffy around the yolks and crisp around the edges.”
“It was wonderfully cool inside, and we admired various fish and invertebrates and newts in bubbling fresh - and saltwater tanks.”
“The newest vat grown muscles, flexing in bubbling jars.”
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“Then the melodies magically would begin bubbling through the air.”
“Once my grandmother was neatly removed from all of the things that kept her brain bubbling along - crossword puzzles, jigsaw puzzles, the Star and Reader's Digest - she fell into a gray, sightless vaccuum that neatly Hoovered her mind away.”
“Wildlife: The geese are stopping over in "bubbling pond" to a small extent -- they mostly just fly over now that the lakes have frozen.”
“There's been a phrase bubbling forth that really bothers me.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bubbling’.
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7thGradeWords
horde, doggedly, retina, frail, jovial, insidious, injudicious, brazen, tentative, hortle, adaver, benign and 91 more...
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sound (quiet)
words for quiet sounds
( randomness, descriptive )sigh, murmur, whisper, whir, rustle, patter, hum, snap, hiss(sss), crackle, bleat, peep and 185 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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Creative Onomatopoeia
Words that sound like what they mean, but they're not *technically* onomatopoetic.
(another edit: this list is morphing into something I can't quite describe. But I still like it.)ugly, icon, hang, weenie, bell, zit, ennui, sour, speed, rankle, muddle, disgruntle and 129 more...
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Watchmen (2009)
Words from 2009 'Watchmen' film.
adversary, certitude, deterrent, stockpile, posturing, minuteman, vigilante, toss, flip, spook, carcass, tread and 174 more...
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MEC2 Lesson 129
make a splash, splash, charming, bubbling, cruise, party, raise a racket, racketeering, racketeer
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