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单词 hubble-bubble
释义

hubble-bubblen.

/ˈhʌb(ə)lbʌb(ə)l/
Etymology: Reduplicated < bubble n. and adj., as suggestive of the sound.
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.
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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.
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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].
3. A piece of empty tattle. Obsolete.
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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.
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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).
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