Citations:bubble

English citations of bubble

• 1759: he verily believed, more honest, well-meaning people were bubbled out of their goods and money by it in one twelve-month, than by pocket-picking and shop-lifting in seven. — Laurnce Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin 2003, p. 25)

• 1773, Samuel Johnson, “A Chouse. n.”, in A Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, volume 1, London: W. Strahan [et al.], →OCLC, unnumbered page:

  A bubble; a tool; a man fit to be cheated.