In a state of excitement, agitated activity, or motion.
After they had sat down, the party remained abubble until the speaker rose.
1885, Alexander Stewart, ’Twixt Ben Nevis and Glencoe, Edinburgh: William Paterson, Chapter 46, p. 337,
It was at times as if a score of tiny rainbows of the most brilliant hues were being rapidly interwoven, only to be instantly untwisted again, in order to be rewoven into a newer and still brighter pattern, in and over an acre of sea, all abubble and aboil with the gambols of the frolicsome shoal.