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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bubble \Bub"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bubbled}; p. pr & vb n. {Bubbling}.] [Cf. D. bobbelen Dan. boble. See {Bubble}, n.] 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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: bubbling adj 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}]
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