bubble over

intransitive verb

: to be so filled with something (as with emotion, an idea, or information) as to be unable to restrain it from escaping as if in bubbles

she came back bubbling over with news

especially : to give vent to emotion in a series of impulses

he frisked around her bubbling over with joy

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

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