Mostly, testers responded to the adorable dolphin design of this bubble machine, perfect for an under-the-sea themed kids' birthday party or waterside picnic, vacation or reunion. It comes with two 8 fluid ounces bottles of bubble solution and the dolphin can hold 6 fluid ounces at at time, so our experts appreciated that you get enough solution from the start to do a couple of rounds of bubble making. Thinker solution has bigger and better bubbles floating towards the sky. Neighbors are impressed, kids are thrilled, you just smile and say - thanks, Fubbles! Learn from us! Here are tips for using bubble machines and bubble blowers in a way that makes parents and kids happy. And so it goes on: our ancestors had the chance to be “pecunious” (rich), “toward” (obliging and hopeful), “ruth” (full of compassion), and “wieldy” (handy with a weapon). Encourage your toddler to imitate the grown-ups mowing the lawn with this pretend lawn mower that sends bubbles out the top. The toy makes a revving sound to further foster imagination (read why pretend play is so important), encourage outdoor time and help with gross motor coordination and exercise.

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Even the most apparently boring of texts drew me in. I would pore over aeroplane safety instructions, puzzling over the difference between “flammable” and “inflammable”, or a possible link between “demonstrate” and “monster” (there isn’t one, as it happens, but these were the sorts of curiosities that my mind adored). With an easy-pour top for refilling all your bubble toys and dip trays, this Premium Bubble Solution is designed to play well. Rather than saying you’re down in the dumps, consider using down in the chops (chops meaning mouth), from 1830, or down in the gills, from 1853. 6. Got the Morbs At midnight on this day in 1990, East and West Germany were finally reunified, less than a year after the destruction of the Berlin Wall. The day is celebrated as Tag der Deutschen Einheit, or Day of German Unity. Words can be just as seasonal as our fruit and flowers. Autumn seems to inspire the most mellifluous of words, like “gossamer”: the fine, filmy cobwebs that float in the air and linger on the grass on a clear September morning. It is short for “goose summer”, a name once given to a dry warm spell later in the year, when geese are being fattened for Christmas; the cobwebs must have reminded people in the Middle Ages of floating, flimsy goose down.Belief in devilry and the supernatural once inspired all kinds of spells and incantations, designed to counter the threat of evil. Many were contained in the “grimoire”, a magician’s book of sorcery and magic used for calling up spirits. Its spells might seek to protect against the evil eye of those who, with just a look, were thought to possess the power to bring misfortune, illness or death. As it turns out, many of the happier siblings of words like these were once alive and well. “Kempt” is from the German for “combed”, and is a useful byword for being neat and tidy. I also set out to explain why bells can never go “dong-ding”, just as none of us will ever wear “flop-flips” while eating a “KatKit”.

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Now is surely the time to regain the lost positives of language. Of course, none of us can ever be entirely word perfect – even lexicographers. Encouragingly, she believes texting, social media and emojis do not spell doom for grammar geeks and word lovers but will instead enrich our use of language.

The colours in this idiom, which is thought to have emerged in the direct aftermath of Camperdown, refer to nautical battle colours. If all of a ship’s masts were broken as a result of gunnery by the enemy, the captain had little alternative but to surrender. If, however, the captain decided to fight on, this was marked by hoisting his ship’s colours on the remnants of the rigging. Susie has also dedicated a whole section to Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting, of which she’s a huge fan. Rather than containing names and telephone numbers, though, they are, naturally, crammed with the celebrity lexicographer’s favourite words. Perhaps the greatest delight in writing the book was choosing lost gems or obscurities from the corners of the dictionary. I made many fresh discoveries along the way. The minute the weather is warm enough, kids want nothing more than to be awash in the soapy spheres, blowing, chasing and popping them to their hearts' content. Which is helpful for parents, because that means you can turn on a bubble machine and let your kids go wild (and give yourself a chance to catch your breath).

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Age grading: Many toys are meant for kids ages 3 and up, but if you have a toddler, there are some bubble toys that are for ages 2 and up, and even some for ages 18 months and up. For maximum safety it's best to give your kids toys that are marked safe for their age. If you're running a bubble machine to delight a baby, keep it out of your baby's reach.

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colloquial , obsolete ) The doldrums; the blahs; a downer; a mood of depression, dejection or melancholy. [16th & 17th c.]

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As for the incantations used to mitigate any wrongdoings from ghosts and goblins on this of all nights, they were once known as “nightspells” – special words to protect you at night. Apparently, Dent has always been this way about words. She was the sort of child who can’t sit at a table without reading the label on the ketchup bottle; then studying German and French at A-level really got her “in the groove”. She did modern languages at Oxford University and then German at Princeton – and if you think she’s blissed out by English etymology, you should see her face when she talks about German. “When I listen to it and speak it, I honestly feel like I’m coming home,” she says, lighting up. She thinks it might have been Goethe who compared English to a country garden, French to an ornamental park and German to a deep, dark forest. “And that’s how it feels to me. It’s thorny and it’s dense and it’s quite dark sometimes, but I just find such joy within it.” Cocomelon," the hit Netflix show for kids, is everywhere these days—even bubble makers. The Cocomelon Bubble Machine can blow bubbles and play songs from the show, entracing kids who can’t get enough of the catchy bops. The machine also works in bubble-only mode, for those times when you don’t want to listen to another “Cocomelon” song. The songs, which cycle through the same variety, are loud enough to hear when you’re sitting closeby, and are at a just-right volume for little ears (there are no volume controls). Ile make him pull his powting croscloath ouer his beetle browes for melancholie, and then my next booke, shall be Martin in his mubble fubbles. Word Perfect is the result of a lifetime of such jottings. The book explores a word or phrase linked to every day of the year. It is essentially an anthology of words and phrases remembered through a moment in time. Some of these moments were decisive – the Battle of Copenhagen that had Nelson “turn a blind eye”; the Declaration of Independence that sealed not only autonomy of government but a separation of language too, meaning we will forever “blame” those Americans for words like “fall” and “sidewalk”, when they had been “ours” long before.

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The Fubbles Bubble Blastin Automatic Party Machine runs on batteries and puts out a steady stream of bubbles, but the materials feel cheap and flimsy. Gruntled” is just one of many positive states of mind and body that were abandoned long ago. When it comes to many English adjectives, the glass seems to be decidedly half full.