scaturient
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prettygoodwordscaturient (skuh-TOOR-ee-uhnt) - adj., overflowing, gushing; overly demonstrative, effusive.
So physically and metaphorically overflowing. Bubbly also works in those two ways. Not a common word -- I can't recall meeting it until it showed up on a word-of-the-day list. Dates to around 1670, that prime area of Latinate imports, from Latin scaturient-, stem form of scaturiens, present participle of scaturire, to gush out, from (I think as a frequentive form?) scatere, to bubble/gush.
---L.
So physically and metaphorically overflowing. Bubbly also works in those two ways. Not a common word -- I can't recall meeting it until it showed up on a word-of-the-day list. Dates to around 1670, that prime area of Latinate imports, from Latin scaturient-, stem form of scaturiens, present participle of scaturire, to gush out, from (I think as a frequentive form?) scatere, to bubble/gush.
---L.
