bubblyadj.n.

1568 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1934) I. 140 Ȝone ar sowttaris be sicht,..Tha blaisit bla bubly baggis.

1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 8 They would no more..haue their heads washt with his bubbly spume.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Empoulé,..bubblie; or..rising in bubbles.

1642 W. Price Serm. 13 Upon what slight motives from bubbly honour, fleeting riches, shadowy pleasures.

a1750 A. Hill Wks. (1753) IV. 303 Tell whose thirst, By taste unguided, snaps at bubbly froth.

1861 C. W. King Antique Gems (1866) 80 The greatest part exhibited that..bubbly texture so generally found in antique pastes.

1880 Home Words 10 18/1 The water boiled with a faintly heard bubbly sound.

1927 Passing Show Summer 51 (advt.) Whisk up to bubbly suds and dip stockings in.

1963 R. Laman Manifest Destiny i. 4 The bubbly hiss of milk streams cutting through foam came up from the bucket squeezed between his knees.

2016 Tel. Herald (Dubuque, Iowa) (Nexis) 6 Nov. a 42 Many people are giving up pop but still crave a bubbly drink.

1772 ‘H. Clinker’ Folly Witless Women 6 A walloping white thing hanging like a snotter at a bubbly wean's nose.

1887 A. Wardrop Mid-Cauther Fair 217 A bubbly whalp like Gawvin sittin' there that greets for naething.

1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 72 A bubbly nose or snoot; a bubbly bairn.

2000 J. Robertson Fanatic 89 When he stumbled back to the flat, hours later, and looked at himself, haggard, bubbly, wretched, the mirror was silent.

1912 C. Hamilton Blindness of Virtue xxi. 160 Mrs. Wilberton was a pretty, slight, bubbly woman who was considerably on the wrong side of forty.

1939 J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath xxii. 367 ‘Never seen you so bubbly,’ Pa said.

1992 Darts World Oct. 22/3 One of the most colourful and bubbly personalities connected with the sport of darts.

2012 StarStudio July 33 She is bubbly, articulate, and hardly leaves one with awkward dead air in between questions.

1902 A. S. Hurd How our Navy is Run 289 The cook, often a man ‘just a little fond of the bubbly’, sometimes took more grog than was good for him, and fell asleep.

1917 Manch. Guardian 14 Dec. 8/1 To this space..are borne kettles of sparkling water. The rum is mixed... The cooks of the day carry the ‘Bubbly’ back to their respective nooks.

1943 R. Burgess & R. Blackburn We joined Navy xi. 115 Bubbly,... Rum.

1989 R. Jolly Jackspeak 130 When diluted in this way, the bubbly would not keep for very long and so (in theory) could not be hoarded.

1916 Des Moines (Iowa) News 25 Dec. 3/4 One good fellow labored up to our trenches with a surprise in the shape of two bottles of ‘bubbly.’ That champagne didn't go very far.

1920 Chambers's Jrnl. 346/2 It goes to the head like bubbly.

1951 J. B. Priestley Festival at Farbridge iii. iii. 566 Bubbly for you... Bubbly for me. George, two bubblies.

2007 Time Out N.Y. 4 Jan. 48/4 Champagne-esque in appearance, this bubbly makes for an ideal aperitif.

1878 I. B. Gill Six Months in Ascension x. 123 For a glass of grog what was there that Jack could not or would not do? And with the Kroomen, ‘Bubbly-water’ (rum) was equally potent.

1898 Navy & Army Illustr. 4 June 259/1 You would..be on the ship cleanin' bright work if you'd had your way, and not eatin' soft-tack and drinkin' bubbly-water.

1902 Play Pictorial 2 299 When asked if she'd take liqueurs or not, Some Benedictine or Chartreuse hot, She answered, ‘Oh yes: I'll take the lot, With some of that bubbly water!’

1908 Times 26 Mar. 6/1 The purest natural mineral water known to science. It is not a ‘bubbly’ water, but is nevertheless deliciously fresh and palatable.

1990 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 13 Apr. They ordered the most expensive wine and then mixed it, spritzer-style, with bubbly water.

2009 C. Helppie Kennedy must be Killed 312 Sammy passed out..from too much bubbly water.