单词 | hubble-bubble |
释义 | hubble-bubblen. 1. A rudimentary form of the hookah in which the smoke bubbles through a coco-nut shell half-filled with water.Also applied to similar pipes, made of clay, glass, silver, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > pipe > water-pipe or hookah hubble-bubble1634 caleana1751 hookah1763 narghile1806 water pipe1812 shisha1832 kalian1835 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 24 They esteeme much of Tobacco, and drinke it in long canes or pipes called hubble bubbles. 1697 in J. T. Wheeler Madras in Olden Time (1861) I. 318 Each of whom sent two bottles of Rose-water, and a glass Hubble-bubble, with a compliment. 1840 New Monthly Mag. 60 59 The use of an hubble-bubble, which, for continuance and monotony, comes as near to human garrulity as can be expected of anything mechanical. 1879 R. H. Elliot Written on their Foreheads I. 160 The hubble~bubble passed from mouth to mouth. 2. A representation of a bubbling sound; also of confused talk. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > chatter chirma800 clappingc1386 glavera1400 clapa1420 clackc1440 blabc1460 clattera1500 babble?a1525 babblery1532 pratery1533 clitter-clatter1535 by-talk?1551 prattle1555 prittle-prattle1556 twittle-twattle1565 cacquet1567 prate?1574 prattlement1579 babblement1595 gibble-gabble1600 gabble1602 twattlea1639 tolutiloquence1656 pratement1657 gaggle1668 leden1674 cackle1676 twit-twat1677 clash1685 chit-chat1710 chatter-chitter1711 chitter-chatter1712 palavering1732 hubble-bubble1735 palaver1748 rattle1748 gum1751 mag1778 gabber1780 gammon1781 gash1787 chattery1789 gabber1792 whitter-whatter1805 yabble1808 clacket1812 talky-talky1812 potter1818 yatter1827 blue streak1830 gabblement1831 psilologya1834 chin-music1834 patter1841 jaw1842 chatter1851 brabble1861 tongue-work1866 yacker1882 talkee1885 chelp1891 chattermag1895 whitter1897 burble1898 yap1907 clatfart1913 jive1928 logorrhœa1935 waffle1937 yackety-yacking1953 yack1958 yackety-yack1958 motormouth1976 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > [noun] > bubbling or gurgling bubbling1598 guggling1668 hubble-bubble1735 gurgle1757 gurgling1814 guggle1821 ingurgitation1851 gollop1912 1735 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. Hubble-Bubble, a confused Noise made by a talkative Person, who speaks so quick, that 'tis difficult to understand what he says or means. 1815 Edinb. Rev. 25 533 Reprinting the whole of that hubble-bubble of words. 1851 T. De Quincey Sketch from Childhood in Hogg's Instructor New Ser. 6 237/1 My brother's wrath had boiled over in such a hubble-bubble of epithets. 1885 A. Brassey In Trades 290 There was a considerable roll and hubble-bubble of the tides as we rounded the point. 1892 J. Payn Mod. Dick Whittington I. 33 The monotonous hubble-bubble of the instrument [the water-receptacle of the hookah]. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > [noun] > instance of follyc1300 tittle-tattle1570 nothing1581 tattle1583 rattle1627 stultiloquy1653 pratement1657 hubble-bubble1720 spermology1890 1720 T. Gordon Lett. Auth. Indep. Whig in Cordial Low Spirits (1751) II. 62 We may very well rank it among one of the Dr.'s Hubble-Bubbles, and no one will deny him the amiable Character of a Publisher of Scandal. 4. Turmoil, confusion (Grose Dict. Vulg. Tongue 1796). 5. attributive. ΚΠ 1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) (at cited word) A hubble-bubble fellow; a man of confused ideas, or one thick of speech. 1827 J. Bentham Wks. (1838–43) X. 323 A very hubble-bubble, trumpery creature. 1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. III. 687 Figures of..a hubble-bubble smoker, and a faquir. 1893 W. B. Harris Journ. Yemen ii. i. 149 A group of Arabs..chatting over a hubble-bubble pipe. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1634 |
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