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Bubbling   /bˈəbəlɪŋ/  /bˈəblɪŋ/   Listen
Bubbling

adjective
1.
Emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation.  Synonyms: bubbly, effervescing, foaming, foamy, frothy, spumy.  "Foamy (or frothy) beer"
2.
Marked by high spirits or excitement.  Synonyms: effervescent, frothy, scintillating, sparkly.  "Scintillating personality" , "A row of sparkly cheerleaders"


Bubble

verb
(past & past part. bubbled; pres. part. bubbling)
1.
Form, produce, or emit bubbles.
2.
Flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise.  Synonyms: babble, burble, guggle, gurgle, ripple.
3.
Rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles.
4.
Cause to form bubbles.
5.
Expel gas from the stomach.  Synonyms: belch, burp, eruct.



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"Bubbling" Quotes from Famous Books



... (one would not have noticed this yesterday) rolled over the girder bridge between churning motors and bubbling camels, and the whole long-coated loose-sleeved Moslem world was awake and about its business, as befits sensible people who ...
— Letters of Travel (1892-1913) • Rudyard Kipling
... burst from every throat; and the boats danced on the bubbling, foaming water. The sailors stood up all ready to save him, crying to each other that he'd come to the surface ...
— Fifty-Two Stories For Girls • Various
... manure escapes into the air. Carbon also escapes into the air, combined with hydrogen, in the form of carburetted hydrogen or marsh-gas (CH4), a product of the decomposition of organic matter in the presence of a large quantity of water. This gas is consequently found bubbling up through stagnant water. Next to carbonic acid gas, water (H2O) is the most abundant gaseous product of decomposition. The nitrogen present in the manure, in different forms, is converted by the process of decomposition chiefly into ammonia, ...
— Manures and the principles of manuring • Charles Morton Aikman
... hum of voices ahead, the howling and the bubbling of the beasts and the hoarse cries of the soldiers girthing up for ...
— The Light That Failed • Rudyard Kipling
... and sprang to the cabin, where I hung it up, and mounted the companion-steps. But as I put my hand to the door to thrust it open a sea broke over the side and filled the decks, bubbling and thundering past the companion-hatch in such a way as to advise me that I need but open the door to drown the cabin. I waited, my heart beating very hard, mad to see what had happened, but not daring to trust myself on deck lest I should ...
— The Frozen Pirate • W. Clark Russell


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