abubble

adj

1. (not-comparable)In a state of excitement, agitated activity, or motion.

   “After they had sat down, the party remained abubble until the speaker rose.”

   “1885, Alexander Stewart, ’Twixt Ben Nevis and Glencoe, Edinburgh: William Paterson, Chapter 46, p. 337, It was at times as if a score of tiny rainbows of the most brilliant hues were being rapidly interwoven, only to be instantly untwisted again, in order to be rewoven into a newer and still brighter pattern, in and over an acre of sea, all abubble and aboil with the gambols of the frolicsome shoal.”

   “The men in stripes worked a shorter day than I at my machine. And there was vastly more romance in being an oyster pirate or a convict than in being a machine slave. And behind it all, behind all of me with youth a-bubble, whispered Romance, Adventure.”

   “When we left the restaurant he was all abubble and said over and over again that he’d had the best time that evening he had ever had in the Army.”

   “Dr. Walter Dürrfeld […] a director of IG Farbenindustrie, that […] conglomerate—inconceivably huge even for its day—whose prestige and size are alone enough to set Professor Biegański’s mind abubble with giddy euphoria.”

2. (not-comparable)Bubbling.

   “The sour mash was abubble.”

   “Part haste the boiling caldron all a-bubble,”

adv

1. (not-comparable)Bubbling over with excitement.