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to blow bubbles

to blow bubbles

1.8
To make small round balls of air by pushing air through gum in your mouth
  • phrasal verb
translation icon : hacer burbujas
  • She learned how to blow bubbles using a special gum that made them float higher.

Examples

  • You know when a kid is blowing bubbles and the bubbles catch the sunlight and they float around and they fly away, It feels so good, doesn't it?

  • I'm tired of blowing bubbles, Eddie dear.

    Necronomicon (1993)

  • If l wanna stay home, if l wanna blow bubbles, I have a right to do what l like.

    Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)

  • Someday I'll teach him how to blow bubbles.

    Explorers (1985)

  • Sounds like a kid blowing bubbles through a straw.

    Desperation (2006)

  • He's blowing bubbles.

    The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (2002)

  • You know, when a kid is blowing bubbles and the bubbles catch the sunlight and they float around and they fly away, it feels so good, doesn't it?

  • You know when a kid is blowing bubbles and the bubbles catch the sunlight and they float around and they fly away, it feels so good, doesn't it?

  • The children ran around the yard, laughing as they blew bubbles that glimmered in the sunlight.

  • After finishing his drink, he decided to blow bubbles with the leftover straw.

Synonyms

to blow a bubble
vsto blow bubbles
1 1.0

To make a small round pocket of air in soapy water by puffing with your mouth

expels air through a mouth held substance like gum, not through a thin film
to form bubbles
vsto blow bubbles
1 2.9

Make small round pockets of air inside or on a liquid

happens by expelling air through a mouth held substance, not by gas in liquid

Surface Forms

blow bubbles infinitive
blowing bubbles present participle
blows bubbles third person singular
blew bubbles past
blown bubbles past participle

Morphology

blow + bubble

The meaning 'to form bubbles by expelling air' is directly and literally derived from combining 'blow' (to force air out) with 'bubble' (a spherical pocket of gas). This describes a straightforward physical action that follows normal compositional semantics and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand it.

Etymology

Blow bubbles shows the exact picture: you use your breath—blow—to make little round films—bubbles—from gum or soapy water. So the phrase means 'to make bubbles' by pushing air out of your mouth.