[f. BUBBLE v.]
1. The action of the verb BUBBLE; the process of forming bubbles, rising in bubbles, etc.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XI. xiv. And whan þat fyre is queynte in watry cloudes, þe bobelynge … and crakkes of þat quenchynge is clepid þonder.
1548. Thomas, It. Dict. (1567), Tocco, the boblyng of a rennyng water, whan it retourneth from the fall out of a deepe hole.
c. 1656. Bp. Hall, Occas. Medit. (1851), 54. After some short noise, and smoke, and bubbling, the metal is quiet.
1855. Maury, Phys. Geog. Sea, xviii. § 755 (1860), 414. The bubbling made a loud noise … heard for a long time after.
fig. 1655. Gurnall, Chr. in Arm., xiii. (1669), 355/1. Arm us against … bublings of our own vain hearts.
1710. Palmer, Proverbs, 237. Correct … the bubblings of our native pride.
† 2. Deluding, cheating (see BUBBLE v. 5). Obs.
1725. Bailey, Erasm. Colloq., 468. Understand the Art of Borrowing and Bubbling.
