·noun A tobacco pipe, so arranged that the smoke passes through water, making a bubbling noise, whence its name. In India, the bulb containing the water is often a cocoanut shell.
Confusion. A hubble-bubble fellow; a man of confused ideas, or one thick of speech, whose words soun...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The party cheated, perhaps from his being like an air bubble, filled with words, which are only wind...
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 ...