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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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