hubble-bubble

plural hubble-bubbles · alternative hubble bubble

1. A bubbling sound.
2. A hookah.

   I lighted a cigar, and Akong smoked his hubble-bubble, a small copy of the nargileh of the Turks.

   1878, William M. Tileston, A Trip to the Tea Country

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   In India, the lower orders use a hookah or hubble bubble, which is made of a cocoa-nut shell well cleaned out, having a hole through the soft eye of the shell, and another on the opposite side, a little lower down, the first of which is used for the chauffoir, and the other to suck or draw the smoke from.

   1831, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction

   His favourite pipe is a huge hubble-bubble, which he will construct in a few minutes by inserting a small piece of Bamboo for a bowl obliquely into a large cylinder about six inches from the bottom containing water, through which the smoke passes to a long slender Bamboo tube.

   1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 126

   […] and then all at once the muttering bubbling noise made by Yussuf's pipe seemed to be coming from the old lawyer's parted lips, and the pipe, instead of justifying its name of “hubble-bubble,” kept on saying snorruk—snorruk, after the fashion of Mr. Burne.

   1887, G.M. Fenn, Yussuf the Guide