Dictionary entry

Bubble (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Bub″ble, v. i. [imp. & p. p.Bubbled (�); p. pr. & vb. n.Bubbling (�).] [Cf. D. bobbelen, Dan. boble. See Bubble, n.] 1. To rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated; to contain bubbles.

The milk that bubbled in the pail.

Tennyson.

2. To run with a gurgling noise, as if forming bubbles; as, a bubbling stream. Pope.

3. To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound.

At mine ear

Bubbled the nightingale and heeded not.

Tennyson.