Bubble

Noun

 * 1) A spherically contained volume of air, especially one made from soapy liquid.
 * 2) A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
 * 3) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
 * 4) A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
 * 5)  Someone who has been ‘bubbled’ or fooled; a dupe.
 * 6)  a feverish upwelling
 * 7)  a feverish surge of speculation in a financial market, usually followed by a market crash (eg the South Sea Bubble).
 * 8)  a Greek (also: bubble and squeak)

Verb

 * 1)  To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such in foods cooking).
 * 2)  To cheat, delude.
 * 3)  To cry, weep.

Adjectives for Bubble
headed; ascending; crystalline; iridescent; innumerable (plural) ; lazy; broken; pricked; intoxicating; soothing; pretty; sparkling; flimsy; flattened;  beaded;  wandering; empty.

Verbs for Bubble
agitate into —s; blow —s; cover with —s; delude with —s; emit —s; produce —s; send forth —s; —amuses; —dances; —dissipates; —drifts; —escapes; —explodes; — fascinates; —floats; —rises; —scintillates; —springs from; —swells.

Adverbs for Bubble
gayly; effervescently; hissingly; foamingly; exhilaratingly; joyously; sputteringly.

Thesaurus
slosh, smoke, smolder, snows of yesteryear, sparkle, sphere, spheroid, spherule, spine, spirit, splash, sponge, spume, stir, straw, stud, style, suds, swash, swish, tab, take on over, thick-coming fancies, thin air, thistledown, trick, trill, trip, tubercle, tubercule, unreal hope, utopia, vapor, verruca, vesicle, vision, wale, wart, wash, welt, whim, whimsy, wildest dreams, work, wrong impression, air, air pocket, airy hope, airy nothing, apparition, autism, babble, ball, balloon, be enthusiastic, bilge, bladder, blain, bleb, blister, blob, blubber, boil, boil over, boll, bolus, boss, bow, brainchild, bubble over, bubble up, bubbles, bulb, bulbil, bulblet, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, burble, burl, button, cahot, carbonation, carry on over, chaff, chimera, china, chine, chip, churn, clump, cobweb, condyle, convex, cork, daydream, deception, delirium, deluded belief, delusion, dereism, dowel, down, dream, dream vision, dreamland, dreamworld, droplet, dust, ear, effervesce, effervescence, eggshell, eidolon, ellipsoid, enthuse, ephemera, ephemeral, ephemerid, ephemerides, ephemeris, ether, fairy, false belief, fancy, fantasque, fantasy, feather, ferment, fiction, figment, fizz, fizzle, flange, flap, flue, fluff, foam, froth, fuzz, gall, geoid, glass, glass house, globe, globelet, globoid, globule, glomerulus, gnarl, go on over, gob, gobbet, golden dream, gossamer, guggle, gurgle, gush, gush over, hallucination, handle, hill, hiss, house of cards, hump, hunch, ice, idle fancy, ignis fatuus, illusion, imagery, imagination, imagining, insubstantial image, invention, jog, joggle, knob, knot, knur, knurl, lap, lather, lip, loop, lump, maggot, make much of, make-believe, matchwood, mayfly, misbelief, misconception, mist, moil, mole, mote, mountain, myth, nevus, nub, nubbin, nubble, oblate spheroid, old paper, orb, orbit, orblet, papilloma, parchment, peg, pellet, phantasm, phantom, piecrust, pipe, pipe dream, plash, plop, prolate spheroid, purl, quixotic ideal, rainbow, rave, rave about, rhapsodize, rib, ridge, ring, ripple, romance, rondure, seethe, self-deceit, self-deception, self-delusion, shadow, shoulder, sick fancy, simmer,

Etymology
Partly imitative, also influenced by burble:.

Derived terms

 * bubble over
 * bubble up

Related terms

 * bubbly
 * bubble bath
 * bubble blower
 * bubble chamber
 * bubble era
 * bubble gum
 * bubble jet printer
 * bubble wrap


 * bubble and squeak
 * burst someone's bubble
 * housing bubble
 * land bubble
 * stock bubble
 * on the bubble
 * bubble team
 * boy in the bubble