bubble

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Translations 1.3.2 Related terms 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Quotations 1.4.2 Translations 1.4.3 References

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[edit] Etymology

Partly imitative, also influenced by burble.

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  Rhymes: -ʌbəl

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bubble (plural bubbles)

1. A spherically contained volume of air, especially one made from soapy liquid.
2. A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
3. Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
4. A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
5. (obsolete) Someone who has been ‘bubbled’ or fooled; a dupe.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1979, p. 15:

     For no woman, sure, will plead the passion of love for an excuse. This would be to own herself the mere tool and bubble of the man.

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to bubble (third-person singular simple present bubbles, present participle bubbling, simple past and past participle bubbled)

1. (intransitive) To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such in foods cooking).
2. (transitive, archaic) To cheat, delude.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 443:

     No, no, friend, I shall never be bubbled out of my religion in hopes only of keeping my place under another government [...]

3. (intransitive, Scottish and Northern England) To cry, weep.

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• For examples of the usage of this term see the citations page.

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• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]
• The New Geordie Dictionary, Frank Graham, 1987, ISBN 0946928118
• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ISBN 1904794165