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From the Latin ebullient, to bubble out. Originally ebullient stuck close to its roots, being used for boiling or bubbling.

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Bill W

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An archaic meaning of ebullient is boiling or angry, such as in "misted and ebullient seas" or "ebullient lava steaming  down the mountainside" or "the ebullient economy economic environment has given way to high inflation, increasing interest rates, and lower savings".  The first known use of the word was in the 1590s.   

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People who are too ebullient early in the morning make me wonder what drugs they are on. 

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Since we are in the Age of E, can we say the ebullient are full of E-bull?

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Thirdly

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On 8/1/2024 at 2:43 AM, sandrewn said:

Did you know?

Someone who is ebullient is bubbling over with enthusiasm, so it shouldn't be much of a surprise that ebullient comes from the Latin verb ebullire, which means "to bubble out." When ebullient was first used in the late 1500s its meaning hewed closely to its Latin source: ebullient meant "boiling" or "bubbling," and described things like boiling water and boiling oil instead of someone's bubbly personality. Only later did the word's meaning broaden beyond describing the liveliness of a boiling liquid to encompass emotional liveliness and enthusiasm.

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The joyous celebration of one of the 33 miners rescued in Chile.

When he reached the surface after 69 days underground, Mario Sepulveda led the ecstatic crowd in a patriotic cheer. He quickly became known as "Super Mario," and many news stories described him as ebullient.

 

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I wonder when it turned into "hirviendo" and "burbujando" in Spanish. I watched a show called Burbujita Gargarita when I was a kid so much that Burbujita became one of my nicknames in early childhood. She was named after her bubbling, curly pink hair, and the fact that her voice was bubbling like a fairy:

 

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