bubbel

Meaning

  1. (masculine) a bubble, spheric volume of air or another gas
  2. (masculine) a bubble ((period of) economic activity depending on speculation or embezzlement)
  3. (masculine) a bubble (unknowingly socially divergent and isolated clique)
  4. (masculine) a bubble, relatively isolated group of people who limited their social contacts largely to each-other, e.g. to prevent infection during a pandemic.

Concepts

foam

Frequency

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Hyphenated as
bub‧bel
Gender
♂️ Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈbʏ.bəl/
Etymology

Originally a variant of bobbel. From Middle Dutch bubbel. Several senses are semantic loans from English bubble.

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