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bubbly, a.|ˈbʌblɪ|
[f. bubble n. + -y1.]
1. Full of bubbles. (In Sc. = blubbering.) bubbly water (slang), champagne; also ellipt. as n.
1599Nashe Lent. Stuffe (1871) 12 They would no more..haue their heads washed with his bubbly spume. 1611Cotgr., Empoulé..bubblie; or..rising in bubbles. 1642W. Price Serm. 13 Upon what slight motives from bubbly honour, fleeting riches, shadowy pleasures. 1861C. King Ant. Gems (1866) 80 The greatest part exhibited that..bubbly texture so generally found in antique pastes. 1910Daily Chron. 9 Apr. 9/3 ‘Too much bubbly water’, so he explained, was responsible for the breach of the rules. 1920Chambers's Jrnl. 346/2 It goes to the head like bubbly. 1927Blackw. Mag. Feb. 231/2 [He] had finished up at dinner with some capital oysters and a bottle of bubbly. 1951J. B. Priestley Festival at Farbridge iii. iii. 566 Bubbly for you... Bubbly for me. George, two bubblies.
2. fig. Of a person: vivacious, full of high spirits.
1939J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath xxii. 367 ‘Never seen you so bubbly,’ Pa said. 1965G. McInnes Road to Gundagai xii. 202 They [sc. lady helps]..did vary from bubbly to bleak, but all shared a paralysing gentility. 1982Barr & York Official Sloane Ranger Handbk. 80/2 Tudors are bubbly girls, man-chasers, ‘always talking about boys’ according to other schools. |