bubbling
- v form, produce, or emit bubbles
The soup was bubbling - v flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
- v rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles
- v cause to form bubbles
- v expel gas from the stomach
- s emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation
bubbling champagne - s marked by high spirits or excitement
bubbly
- n a white sparkling wine either produced in Champagne or resembling that produced there
- s emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation
- s full of or showing high spirits
bright bubbly children
a bubbly personality
buccal
- a of or relating to or toward the cheek
- s lying within the mouth
a buccal gland - s oriented toward the inside of the cheek
the buccal aspect of the gum
buckram
- n a coarse cotton fabric stiffened with glue; used in bookbinding and to stiffen clothing
- v stiffen with or as with buckram
buckram the skirt - s rigidly formal
his prose has a buckram quality
buckshee
- s free of charge
if they deposit these shares in the scheme they will get further buckshee shares on a one-for-one basis"- Economist
bucolic
- n a country person
- n a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life
- s (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic
a pleasant bucolic scene - a relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle