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hubble-bubble|ˈhʌb(ə)lbʌb(ə)l|
[Redupl. from bubble, as suggestive of the sound.]
1. A rudimentary form of the oriental hookah in which the smoke bubbles through a coco-nut shell half-filled with water.
Also applied to similar pipes, made of clay, glass, silver, etc.
1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 24 They esteeme much of Tobacco, and drinke it in long canes or pipes, called hubble bubbles. 1697in J. T. Wheeler Madras in Old. Time (1861) I. 318 Each of whom sent two bottles of Rose-water, and a glass Hubble-bubble, with a compliment. 1840New Monthly Mag. LX. 59 The use of an hubble-bubble, which, for continuance and monotony, comes as near to human garrulity as can be expected of anything mechanical. 1879R. H. Elliot Written on Foreheads I. 160 The hubble⁓bubble passed from mouth to mouth.
2. A representation of a bubbling sound; also of confused talk.
1740Dyche & Pardon Dict. (ed. 3), Hubble-Bubble, a confused noise made by a talkative person, who speaks so quick, that it is difficult to understand what he says or means. 1815Edin. Rev. XXV. 533 Reprinting the whole of that hubble-bubble of words. 1853De Quincey Autobiog. Sk. Wks. I. 68 My brother's wrath had boiled over in such a hubble-bubble of epithets. 1885A. Brassey The Trades 290 There was a considerable roll and hubble-bubble of the tides as we rounded the point. 1892J. Payn Mod. Whittington I. 33 The monotonous hubble-bubble of the instrument [the water-receptacle of the hookah].
†3. A piece of empty tattle. Obs.
1720T. Gordon Lett. Auth. Indep. Whig in Cordial for low Spirits (1751) II. 62 We may very well rank it among one of the Dr.'s Hubble-Bubbles, and no one will deny him the amiable Character of a Publisher of Scandal.
4. Turmoil, confusion (Grose Dict. Vulg. T. 1796).
5. attrib.
1796Grose Dict. Vulg. T. s.v., A hubble-bubble fellow; a man of confused ideas, or one thick of speech. 1827Bentham Wks. (1838–43) X. 323 A very hubble-bubble, trumpery creature. 1851Illustr. Catal. Gt. Exhib. 687 Figures of..a hubble-bubble smoker, and a faquir. 1893W. B. Harris Journ. Yemen ii. i. 149 A group of Arabs..chatting over a hubble-bubble pipe. |