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bubblegum bubble

bubblegum bubble

1.7
A round ball that you make by blowing air into chewing gum in your mouth
  • noun
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  • She blew a big bubblegum bubble during class.

Examples

  • She showed off by blowing a huge bubblegum bubble in front of her friends.

  • A bubblegum bubble popped and stuck to my face during gym class.

  • The contest was to see who could blow the largest bubblegum bubble.

  • Can you make a bubblegum bubble without chewing it?

  • The children laughed as she blew a large bubble with her pink bubblegum.

  • He tried to impress his friends by blowing the biggest bubble of bubblegum he could manage.

  • During recess, they took turns seeing who could blow the biggest bubble with their bubblegum.

Synonyms

bubble
vsbubblegum bubble
228 1.0

A small round pocket of air in a liquid

is formed inside chewing gum by blowing air in the mouth
air bubble
vsbubblegum bubble
8 1.9

A small pocket of air trapped inside a liquid or solid

is formed intentionally inside chewing gum by blowing air in the mouth

Surface Forms

bubblegum bubble singular
bubblegum bubbles plural

Morphology

bubblegum + bubble

The meaning 'a bubble formed by blowing air into chewing gum' is directly and literally composed from 'bubblegum' (chewing gum that produces bubbles) + 'bubble' (a spherical pocket of gas), so the noun–noun combination indicates a bubble made from bubblegum. This is a common, compositional pattern and would be immediately clear to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words (or can infer 'bubblegum' from 'bubble' + 'gum').

Etymology

The noun bubblegum bubble comes from the simple picture of bubble and gum: when you blow air into soft chewing gum, it puffs up into a round bubble and can pop. That's why a bubblegum bubble means 'a bubble made by chewing gum'.