bubble over
intransitive verb
: to be so filled with something (as with emotion, an idea, or information) as to be unable to restrain it from escaping as if in bubbles
she came back bubbling over with news
especially
: to give vent to emotion in a series of impulses
he frisked around her bubbling over with joy —
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“Bubble over.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bubble%20over. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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