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bubble verb. LME.
[Partly imit. (as Dutch bobbelen, German dial. bobbeln, bubbeln, Swedish bubla, Danish boble), partly alt. of BURBLE verb.]
verb intrans. Form or rise in or like bubbles; well up, out, etc., in or like bubbles; boil or brim over (lit.) in bubbles or (fig.) with merriment, anger, excitement, etc.; make the sound of bubbles. LME.
Tennyson Yon swoll'n brook that bubbles fast. C. Kingsley Wild thoughts bubbled within her. P. G. Wodehouse The silver bubbling of a thrush. J. Masefield A spring comes bubbling up there.
verb trans. Send out in or like bubbles. E17.
verb trans. Delude, dupe, cheat, esp. in a commercial or financial enterprise. Now rare. L17.
verb intrans. Weep, lament. Scot. & north. E18.
verb trans. Cause (a baby) to bring up wind. US colloq. M20.
bubblement noun (now rare) effervescence L19.
bubbler noun a person who or thing which bubbles; esp. (arch.) a swindler, a cheat: E18.