bubble3 (bubl)

Snot. Jamie son. [Scotch.] bubble-bowt, n. [A piece of fashionable slang, mentioned by Pope, along with cos in, tompion, colmar, toupee, in the quot. below, as "in use in this present year 1727": supposed to stand for * bubble - beau, bubble, v., + obj. beau; but perhaps of no particular meaning.] A tweezer case. Lac'd in her cosins [stays] new appear'd the bride, A bubble - bow and tompion [watch] at her side, And with an air divine her colmar [fan] ply'd. Then, oh! she cries, what slaves I round me see! Here a bright Redcoat, there a smart toupee. Pope, Treatise on the Bathos.