Confusion. A hubble-bubble fellow; a man of confused ideas, or one thick of speech, whose words sound like water bubbling out of a bottle. Also an instrument used for smoaking through water in the East Indies, called likewise a caloon, and hooker.
·noun A tobacco pipe, so arranged that the smoke passes through water, making a bubbling noise, when...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
An eastern pipe for smoking tobacco through water, which makes a bubbling noise. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound. II. Bubble ·noun A person deceived by an empty pro...
The party cheated, perhaps from his being like an air bubble, filled with words, which are only wind...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Another term for spirit-level, used for astronomical instruments. ...
·- A marine univalve shell of the genus Bulla and allied genera, belonging to the Tectibranchiata. ...
Confusedly. To fire hubble de shuff, to fire quick and irregularly. OLD MILITARY TERM. ...
To except against the general rule, that he who lays the odds must always be adjudged the loser: thi...
Beef and cabbage fried together. It is so called from its bubbling up and squeaking whilst over the ...