ebullient

Feb. 14th, 2006 07:00 am
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ebullient - adj., enthusiastic, high-spirited; boiling over.


That last is the original sense: from Latin, ebullire, to spout out, burst out, from ex- + bullire, to bubble. Stress on the second syllable. The black puppy was somewhat ebullient.

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