"bubbling" in the verb sense
1. bubble
form, produce, or emit bubbles
"The soup was bubbling"
2. ripple, babble, guggle, burble, bubble, gurgle
flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
"babbling brooks"
3. bubble
rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles
"bubble to the surface"
4. bubble
cause to form bubbles
"bubble gas through a liquid"
5. burp, bubble, belch, eruct
expel gas from the stomach
"Please don't burp at the table"
"bubbling" in the adjective sense
1. bubbling, bubbly, foaming, foamy, frothy, effervescing, spumy
emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation
"bubbling champagne"
"foamy (or frothy) beer"
2. bubbling, effervescent, frothy, scintillating, sparkly
marked by high spirits or excitement
"his fertile effervescent mind"
"scintillating personality"
"a row of sparkly cheerleaders"
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