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hubble-bubble
[ huhb-uhl-buhb-uhl ]
noun
- a simple form of the hookah, in which the smoke passes through water, causing a bubbling sound.
- a bubbling sound.
- an uproar; turmoil.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hubble-bubble1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hubble-bubble1
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Example Sentences
Two teenage brothers apparently lit a campfire, smoked a nargillah—a hubble-bubble—and went home.
The women are in the habit of enjoying the hubble-bubble, in groups, in a similar manner.
Dost thou remember the Nurse's dream in that exquisite work, which she recounts in such agony to Hubble Bubble?
For the officers, the native chillim or hubble-bubble was brought and handed round to them one after another.
He had none of the sleepiness and fatalistic languor of the fat hubble-bubble smoking Turk of caricature.
There he was still, sitting in his den and smoking a hubble-bubble.
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