Hubble-bubble
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A bubbling sound.
- 2 an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water wordnet
- 3 A hookah.
"In India, the lower orders use a hookah or hubble bubble, which is made of a cocoa-nut shell well cleaned out, having a hole through the soft eye of the shell, and another on the opposite side, a little lower down, the first of which is used for the chauffoir, and the other to suck or draw the smoke from."
Example
More examples"In India, the lower orders use a hookah or hubble bubble, which is made of a cocoa-nut shell well cleaned out, having a hole through the soft eye of the shell, and another on the opposite side, a little lower down, the first of which is used for the chauffoir, and the other to suck or draw the smoke from."
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