hubble-bubble

Noun

hubble-bubble (plural hubble-bubbles)

1. A bubbling sound.
2. A hookah.
   • In India, the lower orders use a hookah or hubble bubble, which is made of a cocoa-nut shell well cleaned out, having a hole through the soft eye of the shell, and another on the opposite side, a little lower down, the first of which is used for the chauffoir, and the other to suck or draw the...1831, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction
   • His favourite pipe is a huge hubble-bubble, which he will construct in a few minutes by inserting a small piece of Bamboo for a bowl obliquely into a large cylinder about six inches from the bottom containing water, through which the smoke passes to a long slender Bamboo tube.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 126