abubble
/əˈbʌb.l̩/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
In a state of excitement, agitated activity, or motion.
adj
adv
Bubbling over with excitement.
Example Sentences
- "After they had sat down, the party remained abubble until the speaker rose."
- "1885, Alexander Stewart, ’Twixt Ben Nevis and Glencoe, Edinburgh: William Paterson, Chapter 46, p. 337, It was at times as if a score of tiny rainbows of the most brilliant hues were being rapidly interwoven, only to be instantly untwisted again, in order to be rewoven into a newer and still brighter pattern, in and over an acre of sea, all abubble and aboil with the gambols of the frolicsome shoal."
- "The men in stripes worked a shorter day than I at my machine. And there was vastly more romance in being an oyster pirate or a convict than in being a machine slave. And behind it all, behind all of me with youth a-bubble, whispered Romance, Adventure."
- "When we left the restaurant he was all abubble and said over and over again that he’d had the best time that evening he had ever had in the Army."
- "Dr. Walter Dürrfeld […] a director of IG Farbenindustrie, that […] conglomerate—inconceivably huge even for its day—whose prestige and size are alone enough to set Professor Biegański’s mind abubble with giddy euphoria."
- "The sour mash was abubble."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: a
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˈbʌb.l̩/
- British English: /əˈbʌb.l̩/