1. Emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation
   "bubbling champagne";
   - bubbly, foaming, foamy, frothy, effervescing, spumy
    
2. Marked by high spirits or excitement
   "his fertile bubbling mind";
   - effervescent, frothy, scintillating, sparkly

1. Form, produce, or emit bubbles
   "The soup was bubbling"
    
2. Rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles
   "bubble to the surface"
    
3. Flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
   "bubbling brooks";
   - ripple, babble, guggle, burble, gurgle
    
4. Cause to form bubbles
   "bubble gas through a liquid"
    
5. Expel gas from the stomach
   "The baby bubbled after feeding";
   - burp [informal], belch, eruct [formal], eructate

See also: bubble over, effervescent, full of life, lively, vital

Type of: alter, arise, breathe, change, come up, emit, go, go up, lift, modify, move up, rise, sound, uprise [archaic, literary]

Encyclopedia: Bubbling