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单词 bubble scheme
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bubble scheme
1. Designating something fragile, insubstantial, or delusive; esp. with reference to fraudulent commercial undertakings, as bubble scheme, etc. Cf. sense A. 2 and bubble company n. at Compounds 2.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [adjective]
flittingc1374
aerya1398
bottomlessa1413
hollowa1529
flittering1549
wanzing1571
aerial1581
slight1585
flit1590
windy1593
filmy1594
tenuous1597
unsubstantial1597
yeasty1598
thingless1599
airy1600
spare1602
spongy1603
insubstantial1607
baselessa1616
thina1616
insolid1618
insubstantiate1621
tenuious1634
bubble1635
thin-spun1638
subventaneous1646
unsubstanceda1658
whipped1673
aericala1678
huffy1678
blatherya1693
naughty1696
substanceless1784
vapoury1818
aeriform1827
airified1837
blow-away1858
non-substantial1858
unbased1860
evasive1881
stuffless1896
fabricless1905
lighter-than-air1909
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > [adjective]
sharking1613
bubble1763
swindling1773
society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [adjective] > involving speculation > specific fraudulent undertakings
bubble1763
1635 F. Quarles Emblemes i. iv. Epigr. 19 What's lighter than the mind? A thought: Than Thought? This bubble-world.
1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius 22–25 Feb. Several Bubble-Schools and Academies sprung up.
1763 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting III. i. 66 He..was concerned in a bubble Lottery.
1798 M. Edgeworth & R. L. Edgeworth Pract. Educ. II. xxiii. 682 This wager would have been a bubble bet if it had been brought before the Jockey-club.
1839 N.Z. Gaz. 21 Aug. 6/2 He goes about describing it as a bubble scheme, and Poyais project for cheating the public.
1857 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. London 20 278 The wild speculation in bubble projects, the reckless living, and the improvident habits..were all circumstances which told their tale upon the fortunes of Sir R. Walpole's landed friends.
1949 Centralia (Illinois) Evening Sentinel 2 Apr. English bankers called the project a ‘bubble scheme’.
2013 N.Y. Mag. 11 Feb. 73 The twenty new and veteran series, so-called bubble shows, whose ratings haven't warranted cancellation but still aren't good enough to make renewal inevitable.
extracted from bubblen.adj.
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