Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of hubbles; rough: as, hubbly ice; a hubbly road; hubbly skating or sleighing. The Advance, Feb. 18, 1886.
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Examples
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But the snow-ice on Milton Pond was "hubbly" and not nice to skate on, while there were only a few patches of smooth ice anywhere in town.
The Corner House Girls at School Grace Brooks Hill 1917
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"hubbly" places, Janice saw Mrs. Beaseley out sweeping the narrow brick walk laid in front of her gate.
The Mission of Janice Day Helen Beecher Long
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And by pure luck, today (4/20) we put out a video tribute to one Iraqi's all-consuming love for his hookah, or hubbly bubbly as he calls it.
Boing Boing 2007
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Breathe, focus inwardly, and trust your gut as the best travel guide - especially when things go unexpectedly hubbly-bubbly.
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The three witches with their hubbly-bubbliness had disappeared (much to Abu's chagrin because this was the only bit of the play he could quote at me in the car), in their place a demonically possesed child who physically stayed with Macbeth through much of the play.
A Babelous Macbeth Sharon Bakar 2005
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In the narrow streets of old Cairo -- in alleys where beggars limp through piles of garbage, where idle men puff on their hubbly-bubblies and chickens beat up dust with their wings -- the ancient tradition of the neighborhood scribe lingers.
Nibbling At The Net 2007
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Analyst Peter Alliss, a Briton who split airtime between ABC and the BBC, correctly noted when things were getting "hubbly and bubbly."
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The three witches with their hubbly-bubbliness had disappeared (much to Abu's chagrin because this was the only bit of the play he could quote at me in the car), in their place a demonically possesed child who physically stayed with Macbeth through much of the play.
Archive 2005-09-01 Sharon Bakar 2005
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He believed that the sound of the traditional Egyptian "hubbly bubblies" contained messages to him from the god Osiris.
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He believed that the sound of the traditional Egyptian "hubbly bubblies" contained messages to him from the god Osiris.
qms commented on the word hubbly
Swamp gases make pond water bubbly
And snowfall confuses things doubly.
The mingling's not nice
For mid-winter ice,
Which skaters will find sadly hubbly.
October 4, 2016