abubble
Collocations
3VERB + ABUBBLE
party, remained
ABUBBLE + NOUN
speaker
PREP.
until
Definitions
adj
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.
Bubbling.
The sour mash was abubble.
Part haste the boiling caldron all a-bubble,
adv
Bubbling over with excitement.
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3After they had sat down, the party remained abubble until the speaker rose.
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