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Definition of Hubble-bubble
1. Noun. An oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water. "A bipolar world with the hookah and Turkish coffee versus hamburgers and Coca Cola"
Generic synonyms: Pipe, Tobacco Pipe
Definition of Hubble-bubble
1. Noun. a hookah ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hubble-bubble
Literary usage of Hubble-bubble
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1862)
"What he heard, on the whole, was very like this—" hubble-bubble-rub- ble-dubble—the
great match of shuttlecock played between the gentlemen of the north and ..."
2. A Pedlar's Pack of Ballads and Songs: With Illustrative Notes by William Hugh Logan, James Maidment (1869)
"Hubble Bubble come away, Let every Bubble have its day ; Here's brave new Bubbles
for your pay, At Jonathan's and Garraway. ..."
3. The History of Mankind by Friedrich Ratzel (1896)
"All money is invested in cattle, and the greatest Madagascar hubble-bubble, in
the African style—one-fifth ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1809)
"Hubble bubble, &c. ' Wing of sparrow, bill of dove, ' Little finger of my glove
... 'Hubble bubble, &c. ' Myrtle leaf by Venus worn, ' Bud of rose without a ..."
5. Notes of Travel: Or, Recollections of Majunga, Zanzibar, Muscat, Aden, Mocha by Joseph Barlow Felt Osgood (1854)
"—French consul.—Nubian dancing girl. —Population. —Turks.—Chess playing.—Meerschaum.—Hubble
bubble.— Abyssinians.—Visit from the governor. ..."
6. Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery to Africa and Arabia: Performed in His by Thomas Boteler (1835)
"Smoking the Hubble-Bubble— Arrival of the Barracouta.—Death of Mr. Tambs.—A
wounded Black.—Atrocious Cruelty of the Commandant of the Portuguese Fort. ..."
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