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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation; "bubbling champagne"; "foamy (or frothy) beer" [syn: bubbling, bubbly, foaming, foamy, frothy, effervescing, spumy]
2: full of or showing high spirits; "bright bubbly children"; "a bubbly personality" n
1: a white sparkling wine either produced in Champagne or resembling that produced there [syn: champagne, bubbly]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective (bubblier; -est) Date: 1599 1. full of bubbles ; effervescent <a bubbly bottle of pop> 2. full of or showing good spirits ; lively, effusive 3. resembling a bubble <a bubbly dome> II. noun Date: 1920 champagne 1

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. --adj. (bubblier, bubbliest) 1 having or resembling bubbles. 2 exuberant. --n. colloq. champagne. Phrases and idioms: bubbly-jock Sc. a turkeycock.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bubbly Bub"bly, a. Abounding in bubbles; bubbling. --Nash.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Someone who is bubbly is very lively and cheerful and talks a lot. ...a bubbly girl who loves to laugh... She had a bright and bubbly personality. = bouncy ADJ [approval] 2. Champagne is sometimes called bubbly. (INFORMAL) Guests were presented with glasses of bubbly on arrival. 3. If something is bubbly, it has a lot of bubbles in it. Melt the butter over a medium-low heat. When it is melted and bubbly, put in the flour. ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

active, activist, activistic, airy, alive, animated, beaten, blebby, blistered, blistering, blistery, bouncing, bouncy, breezy, brisk, bubbling, burbling, burbly, carbonated, champagne, cheerful, cheery, chiffon, chipper, downy, ebullient, effervescent, energetic, ethereal, excited, feathery, fizzy, fluffy, foamy, frisky, frothy, full of go, full of life, full of pep, gossamery, imponderous, leger, light, light as air, lighter than vanity, live, lively, mercurial, merry, militant, mousse, peppy, perky, pert, puffed, quicksilver, smacking, snappy, souffle, souffleed, spanking, sparkling, sparkling wine, spirited, sprightly, spry, spumescent, unheavy, vesicant, vesicated, vesicatory, vesicular, vivacious, volatile, weightless, whipped, yeasty, zingy