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bubbling over

bubbling over is the present participle and gerund of bubble over.

Meaning of bubble over

Verb

bubble over (third-person singular simple present bubbles over, present participle bubbling over, simple past and past participle bubbled over)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To be very enthusiastic, or highly excited.
    • She was bubbling over with laughter as she ran into the room.

Questions about bubbling over

What is bubbling over the present participle and gerund of?
Bubbling over is the present participle and gerund of bubble over.

Words near bubbling over in the dictionary

  1. bubblin
  2. Bubbline
  3. bubbliness
  4. bubbling
  5. bubbling in
  6. bubbling over
  7. bubbling under
  8. bubbling up
  9. bubblingly
  10. bubblings
  11. bubblish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bubbling over (page history and authors); bubble over (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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