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bubblicious en · ADJ

Etymology

From bubble + -licious.

Meanings

  1. (uncommon) Relating to a speculative bubble.
    • Others are more wary. The Rabobank financial analyst Michael Every said earlier this year that he was gobsmacked by the “bubblicious stupidity” of the market. 2021 December 1, Mark Sweney, quoting Michael Every, “Scorsese producer to make first Hollywood movie funded by NFTs”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
    • Both San Francisco and New York saw steadier (and possibly less bubblicious) gains than the rest, he wrote. 2007 November 3, Dan Mitchell, “Let Us Pray for Wealth”, in New York Times:
    • It turns out that the world's ten tallest new buildings are like a worldwide pulse of bubblicious economic activity. 2011 April 5, Derek Thompson, “The Art of Bubbles: How Sotheby's Predicts the World Economy”, in The Atlantic:
    • Maybe she could figure out how to create a bubblicious economy like the one her husband presided over in the 1990s. 2008 April 22, Andrew Ross Sorkin, “Hedge Fund Investing and Politics”, in New York Times:
  2. (rare, slang) Bubbly and delicious.
    • Although their milieu is rock, it's the sanitised, bubblicious punk-pop variety as purveyed by faux-ballsy, pseudo-snarly US "chicks" ever since Joan Jett declared that She Loved Rock'n'roll and nobody believed her. 2009 April 3, Paul Lester, “No 520: Done With Dolls”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
    • bubblicious champagne

Forms

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more bubblicious Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most bubblicious Degree=Sup lexicographic

Synonyms

ebullient · bubblesome · foamy · abubble · sparkling · sparkling · sparkly · fizzy · gassy · fizzy · effervescent · bubblesome · bubbly · frothy · spumescent