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English
Etymology
From a- (“in such a state or condition”) + bubble.[1]
Pronunciation
Adjective
abubble (not comparable)
- In a state of excitement, agitated activity, or motion.
After they had sat down, the party remained abubble until the speaker rose.
- 1885, Alexander Stewart, ’Twixt Ben Nevis and Glencoe, Edinburgh: William Paterson, Chapter 46, p. 337,
- It was at times as if a score of tiny rainbows of the most brilliant hues were being rapidly interwoven, only to be instantly untwisted again, in order to be rewoven into a newer and still brighter pattern, in and over an acre of sea, all abubble and aboil with the gambols of the frolicsome shoal.
1913, Jack London, chapter 7, in John Barleycorn, New York: Century, page 64:The men in stripes worked a shorter day than I at my machine. And there was vastly more romance in being an oyster pirate or a convict than in being a machine slave. And behind it all, behind all of me with youth a-bubble, whispered Romance, Adventure.
1944, Ernie Pyle, chapter 30, in Brave Men,, New York: Henry Holt, page 409:When we left the restaurant he was all abubble and said over and over again that he’d had the best time that evening he had ever had in the Army.
1979, William Styron, chapter 13, in Sophie’s Choice, New York: Random House, page 381:Dr. Walter Dürrfeld […] a director of IG Farbenindustrie, that […] conglomerate—inconceivably huge even for its day—whose prestige and size are alone enough to set Professor Biegański’s mind abubble with giddy euphoria.
- Bubbling.
The sour mash was abubble.
1869, William Alexander, “Specimen of a Translation of Virgil”, in Afternoon Lectures on Literature and Art, Dublin: William McGee, page 345:Part haste the boiling caldron all a-bubble,
Synonyms
Adverb
abubble (not comparable)
- Bubbling over with excitement. [1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abubble”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10.