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bubblicious

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English

Etymology

From bubble + -licious.

Adjective

bubblicious (comparative more bubblicious, superlative most bubblicious)

  1. (uncommon, economics) Relating to a speculative bubble.
    • 2007 November 3, Dan Mitchell, “Let Us Pray for Wealth”, in New York Times:
      Both San Francisco and New York saw steadier (and possibly less bubblicious) gains than the rest, he wrote.
    • 2008 April 22, Andrew Ross Sorkin, “Hedge Fund Investing and Politics”, in New York Times:
      Maybe she could figure out how to create a bubblicious economy like the one her husband presided over in the 1990s.
    • 2011 April 5, Derek Thompson, “The Art of Bubbles: How Sotheby's Predicts the World Economy”, in The Atlantic:
      It turns out that the world's ten tallest new buildings are like a worldwide pulse of bubblicious economic activity.
    • 2021 December 1, Mark Sweney, quoting Michael Every, “Scorsese producer to make first Hollywood movie funded by NFTs”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
      Others are more wary. The Rabobank financial analyst Michael Every said earlier this year that he was gobsmacked by the “bubblicious stupidity” of the market.
  2. (rare, slang) Bubbly and delicious.
    Synonyms: bubblesome, fizzy, sparkling; see also Thesaurus:effervescent
    bubblicious champagne
    • 2009 April 3, Paul Lester, “No 520: Done With Dolls”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
      Although their milieu is rock, it's the sanitised, bubblicious punk-pop variety as purveyed by faux-ballsy, pseudo-snarly US "chicks" ever since Joan Jett declared that She Loved Rock'n'roll and nobody believed her.
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