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Hubble-bubble   /hˈəbəl-bˈəbəl/   Listen
Hubble-bubble

noun
1.
An oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water.  Synonyms: calean, chicha, hookah, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, water pipe.






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"Hubble-bubble" Quotes from Famous Books



... him, in his piercing dark eyes, in his red lips, in his healthy and manly face with its rosy brown complexion and its powerful decided chin. He had none of the sleepiness and fatalistic languor of the fat hubble-bubble smoking Turk of caricature. The whole of him looked aristocratic, energetic, perfectly poised and absolutely self-possessed. Many of the women in court glanced at him ...
— In the Wilderness • Robert Hichens

... war. Soon Turkey entered the war. The fury of the Turks against the Armenians burst out into a flame. You might see in Konia two or three Turks sitting in the shadow of a little saddler's shop by the street smoking their hubble-bubble water-pipes, and saying ...
— The Book of Missionary Heroes • Basil Mathews

... cooked my dinner and looked after me generally. We sailed along the sometimes bare, and occasionally palm-fringed, shores with that indifference to time and progress which is often the despair and not unfrequently the envy of Europeans. The hubble-bubble passed from mouth to mouth, and the crew whiled away the evening hours with their monotonous chants. We always anchored at night; sometimes we stopped for fishing, and once ran into a small bay—one ...
— Gold, Sport, And Coffee Planting In Mysore • Robert H. Elliot



Words linked to "Hubble-bubble" :   tobacco pipe, pipe



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