The Collaborative International Dictionary
bubbling \bubbling\ adj.
giving off bubbles; -- of a liquid. [Narrower terms: foaming, frothing; effervescent; boiling]
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stimulatingly lively, witty, and entertaining; -- of people.
Syn: effervescent, scintillating, sparkling, sparkly, vivacious.
Wiktionary
n. The action or motion of something that bubbles. vb. (present participle of bubble English)
WordNet
adj. emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation; "bubbling champagne"; "foamy (or frothy) beer" [syn: bubbly, foaming, foamy, frothy, effervescing]
marked by high spirits or excitement; "his fertile effervescent mind"; "scintillating personality"; "sparkling conversation"; "a row of sparkly cheerleaders" [syn: effervescent, scintillating, sparkling, sparkly]
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]
Usage examples of "bubbling".
Esther laughed suddenly, a bubbling, girlish laugh, and then pretended that she had laughed because Jane had stubbed her toe.
There was always an undercurrent of hatred bubbling just beneath the surface.
She was surrounded by subtle noises: the bangs and whirrs of fans and pumps, the bubbling of aerators.
He could feel the skin of his chest and face blistering, bubbling like the sulphurous ground.
She could hear it bubbling now, and the thirst rose up in her like a grendel.
Perhaps the man would ask for an houri too, when glandular juices commenced bubbling within his veins.
One of the friends stepped forward with a bottle of bubbling wine and filled their glasses.
As to the water of the lake, it was sweet, limpid, rather dark, and from certain bubblings, and the concentric circles which crossed each other on the surface, it could not be doubted that it abounded in fish.
Healer lifts Ares in five of its arms, carries him to the empty tank, attaches various fibers and tentacles and umbilicals, and drops him into the bubbling violet liquid.
Chunks of the scaly stuff fell away, stuck absurdly in the bubbling soil, left the boles smooth and damp.
He clung awkwardly to the chamber wall while Clemantine and Deneb, Seth and Noa, and even Kiyo crowded toward Hailey, their questions bubbling forth- Are you well?
He had a laboratory filled with apparatus and with devices continually bubbling and whistling.
His companions, seeminglv without purpose, toppled past and dropped random objects into the bubbling cauldron: the sextant, a cheese, the keg of nails, a length of rope, and all manner of lunatic things.
It would be a grand thing indeed to have great rooms filled with bubbling this and thats and coiled apparatuses and devices.
One vendor had a bubbling tank of water in which he was boiling whole crabs.