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hubble-bubble
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun hubble-bubble has 1 sense
- hubble-bubble(n = noun.artifact) calean, chicha, hookah, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, water pipe - an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water; "a bipolar world with the hookah and Turkish coffee versus hamburgers and Coca Cola" is a kind of pipe, tobacco pipe
CIDE DICTIONARY
hubble-bubble, n.
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. It is a simple type of hookah. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
hubble-bubble, n.
1 a rudimentary form of hookah.
2 a bubbling sound.
3 confused talk.
1 a rudimentary form of hookah.
2 a bubbling sound.
3 confused talk.
Etymology
redupl. of BUBBLE
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