bubbly

1. 1.

   a white sparkling wine either produced in Champagne or resembling that produced there

   Synonymschampagne

   Broadersparkling wine

Other forms of bubbly

plural

bubblies·

comparative or superlative

bubblier

comparative or superlative

bubbliest

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bubbly

What does bubbly mean?

bubbly means "emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bubbly?

bubbly has 2 syllables: bub-bly. The stress falls on "bub". In IPA it is /ˈbʌbli/.

What is another word for bubbly?

Close synonyms include bubbling, foaming, foamy, frothy, effervescing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bubbly a common word?

bubbly is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.