bubblelike

comparative more bubblelike · superlative most bubblelike

1. Having the characteristics of a bubble.

   To obtain machinery, capital had to be raised; and to do this, calls had to be made upon the shares of the newly-floated companies, many of which were of too bubble-like a texture to stand the slightest strain on their finances.

   1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 171