Word Meanings - BUBBLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Abounding in bubbles; bubbling. Nash.

BUBBLY
Abounding in bubbles; bubbling. Nash.
BUBBLE SHELL
A marine univalve shell of the genus Bulla and allied genera, belonging to the Tectibranchiata.
ABOUND
1. To be in great plenty; to be very prevalent; to be plentiful. The wild boar which abounds in some parts of the continent of Europe. Chambers. Where sin abounded grace did much more abound. Rom. v. 20. 2. To be copiously supplied; -- followed
BUBBLER
To cheat; to deceive. She has bubbled him out of his youth. Addison. The great Locke, who was seldom outwitted by false sounds, was nevertheless bubbled here. Sterne.
BUBBLE
1. A thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas; as, a soap bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river. Beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow, Like bubbles in a late disturbed stream. Shak. 2. A small quantity of air or gas within a liquid body;
BUBBLING JOCK
The male wild turkey, the gobbler; -- so called in allusion to its notes.
OVERABOUND
To be exceedingly plenty or superabundant. Pope.
SUPERABOUND
To be very abundant or exuberant; to be more than sufficient; as, the country superabounds with corn.
SEABOUND
Bounded by the sea.
HUBBLE-BUBBLE
A tobacco pipe, so arranged that the smoke passes through water, making a bubbling noise, whence its name. In India, the bulb containing the water is often a cocoanut shell.