Bubble

What “Bubble” means

Noun

1. A spherically contained volume of air or other gas in a liquid, commonly a soapy liquid.
2. A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
3. Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
4. Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
5. A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.

Verb

1. To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
2. To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
3. To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
4. To cover or spread with bubbles
5. To delude, dupe, or hoodwink; to cheat.

Where the word comes from

Partly imitative, also influenced by burble. Compare Middle Dutch bobbe (“bubble”) > Dutch bubbel (“bubble”), Low German bubbel (“bubble”), Danish boble (“bubble”), Swedish bubbla (“bubble”). The word was first used in its economic sense in association with the collapse of the South Sea Company in 1720, based on the metaphor of an inflated soap bubble bursting.

Business name ideas with “Bubble”

Industries where “Bubble” fits

We suggest this word for 3 business types and industries, including:

• Bubble Tea Shop
• Soap Business
• Soap and Other Detergent Manufacturing