Bubble vs. Piffle
Bubblenoun
A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
Bubblenoun
A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
Bubblenoun
(by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
Bubblenoun
(figurative) Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
Bubblenoun
(economics) 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.
Bubblenoun
(figurative) The emotional and/or physical atmosphere in which the subject is immersed.
Bubblenoun
An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
Bubblenoun
(obsolete) Someone who has been ‘bubbled’ or fooled; a dupe.
Bubblenoun
A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
Bubblenoun
The globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.
Bubblenoun
(Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh.
Bubblenoun
(Cockney rhyming slang) A Greek.
Bubblenoun
Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
Bubblenoun
(poker) The point in a poker tournament when the last player without a prize loses all their chips and leaves the game, leaving only players that are going to win prizes. (e.g., if the last remaining 9 players win prizes, then the point when the 10th player leaves the tournament)
Bubblenoun
A group of people who are in quarantine together.
Bubbleverb
(intransitive) To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
Bubbleverb
To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
Bubbleverb
To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
Bubbleverb
To cheat, delude.
Bubbleverb
To cry, weep.
Bubbleverb
(transitive) To pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch.
Bubbleverb
(transitive) To cause to feel as if bubbling or churning.
Bubbleverb
(transitive) To express in a bubbly or lively manner.
Bubbleverb
(transitive) To form into a protruding round shape.
Bubbleverb
(transitive) To cover with bubbles.
Bubbleverb
(transitive) To bubble in; to mark a response on a form by filling in a circular area (‘bubble’).
Bubblenoun
A thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas; as, a soap bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river.
Bubblenoun
A small quantity of air or gas within a liquid body; as, bubbles rising in champagne or aërated waters.
Bubblenoun
A globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent solid; as, bubbles in window glass, or in a lens.
Bubblenoun
A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
Bubblenoun
The globule of air in the spirit tube of a level.
Bubblenoun
Anything that wants firmness or solidity; that which is more specious than real; a false show; a cheat or fraud; a delusive scheme; an empty project; a dishonest speculation; as, the South Sea bubble.
Bubblenoun
A person deceived by an empty project; a gull.
Bubbleverb
To rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated; to contain bubbles.
Bubbleverb
To run with a gurgling noise, as if forming bubbles; as, a bubbling stream.
Bubbleverb
To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound.
Bubblenoun
a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)
Bubblenoun
a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control;
Bubblenoun
an impracticable and illusory idea;
Bubblenoun
a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic
Bubbleverb
form, produce, or emit bubbles;
Bubbleverb
flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise;
Bubbleverb
expel gas from the stomach;
Pifflenoun
Nonsense, foolish talk.
Piffleverb
To act or speak in a futile, ineffective, or nonsensical manner.
Piffleverb
To waste, to fritter away.
Piffleverb
(dated) To be squeamish or delicate.
Piffleverb
To be sequeamish or delicate; hence, to act or talk triflingly or ineffectively; to twaddle; piddle.
Pifflenoun
Act of piffling; trifling talk or action; piddling; twaddle.
Pifflenoun
trivial nonsense
Piffleverb
speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
Piffleverb
act in a trivial or ineffective way
