BUBBLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bubbling mean? 

• BUBBLING (adjective)
  The adjective BUBBLING has 2 senses:

1. emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation

2. marked by high spirits or excitement

  Familiarity information: BUBBLING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUBBLING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation

Synonyms:

bubbling; bubbly; effervescing; foaming; foamy; frothy; spumy

Context example:

foamy (or frothy) beer

Similar:

effervescent ((of a liquid) giving off bubbles)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Marked by high spirits or excitement

Synonyms:

bubbling; effervescent; frothy; scintillating; sparkly

Context example:

a row of sparkly cheerleaders

Similar:

lively (full of life and energy)

 Context examples 

Quincey Morris is with him, and that is much of a help, for he himself is a bubbling well of good spirits.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Scientists say that places where water and rock interact are important for the development of life; for example, it's possible life began on Earth in bubbling vents on our sea floor.

(Ganymede may harbor 'club sandwich' of oceans and ice, NASA)

There's a lot of turbulence, and it's bubbling.

(Telescopes Uncover Early Construction of Giant Galaxy, NASA)

The clue to this puzzle came from the variation in calculated gas temperatures – they were high when the lava lake was placid, and low when it was bubbling furiously.

(Size matters: if you are a bubble of volcanic gas, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

From below, as from out an abyss of blackness, came up a gurgling sound, as of air bubbling through water.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It was like a boiling kettle or the bubbling of some great pot.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The other three took complete headers, and came up again drenched and bubbling.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

And between this and the smells arising from various pots boiling and bubbling on the galley fire, I was in haste to get out into the fresh air.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Men were shaking hands, it did not matter with whom, and bubbling over in a general incoherent babel.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Sometimes I think I am in Northumberland, and that the noises I hear round me are the bubbling of a little brook which runs through Deepden, near our house;—then, when it comes to my turn to reply, I have to be awakened; and having heard nothing of what was read for listening to the visionary brook, I have no answer ready.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)