Bubble
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- A spherically contained volume of air, especially one made from soapy liquid.
- A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
- Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
- A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
- Someone who has been ‘bubbled’ or fooled; a dupe.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1979, p. 15:
- For no woman, sure, will plead the passion of love for an excuse. This would be to own herself the mere tool and bubble of the man.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1979, p. 15:
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