hubble-bubble

Questions about hubble-bubble

What does hubble-bubble mean?

hubble-bubble means "an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water".

How many syllables are in hubble-bubble?

hubble-bubble has 4 syllables and divides as hub-ble--bub-ble under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for hubble-bubble?

Close synonyms include hookah, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha. 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 hubble-bubble a common word?

hubble-bubble is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.