bubble

bubble

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, Scotland and Northern England) To cry, weep.

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.

6. (figuratively) a feverish upwelling
   • 2011 January 23, Alistair Magowan, “Blackburn 2 - 0 West Brom”, BBC:

     Thomas, so often West Broms most positive attacker down their left side and up against Salgado, twice almost burst the bubble of excitement around the ground but he had two efforts superbly saved by Robinson.

7. (figuratively) a feverish surge of speculation in a financial market, usually followed by a market crash (eg the w:South Sea Bubble).
8. (Cockney rhyming slang) a Greek (also: bubble and squeak)

	bolla
	period of intense speculation in a market
	spherically contained volume of air
	Piccola sferetta colma d'aria che si produce in un liquido per la presenza di un gas o durante l'ebollizione.

vescica

bollire

formare bolle

gorgogliare

ribollire

soffio

spumeggiare

Altri significati:

Anything resembling a hollow sphere.

(figuratively) a feverish upwelling

A small spherical cavity in a solid material.

A spherically contained volume of air, especially one made from soapy liquid.

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

small spherical cavity in a solid

(figuratively) a feverish surge of speculation in a financial market, usually followed by a market crash (eg the w:South Sea Bubble).

anything resembling a hollow sphere

to rise up in bubbles

(air) bubble (esp. in a liquid)

(intransitive) To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such in foods cooking).

(Cockney rhyming slang) a Greek ( '''also:''' bubble and squeak)

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.

(transitive, archaic) To cheat, delude.

(obsolete) Someone who has been ‘bubbled’ or fooled; a dupe.

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