abubble

UK /əˈbʌb.l̩/ US /əˈbʌb.l̩/
adj 2adv 1

Definitions

adj

1

In a state of excitement, agitated activity, or motion.

After they had sat down, the party remained abubble until the speaker rose.

1885, Alexander Stewart, ’Twixt Ben Nevis and Glencoe, Edinburgh: William Paterson, Chapter 46, p. 337, It was at times as if a score of tiny rainbows of the most brilliant hues were being rapidly interwoven, only to be instantly untwisted again, in order to be rewoven into a newer and still brighter pattern, in and over an acre of sea, all abubble and aboil with the gambols of the frolicsome shoal.

2

Bubbling.

The sour mash was abubble.

Part haste the boiling caldron all a-bubble,

adv

1

Bubbling over with excitement.

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