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champagne bullisant

English translation: bubbling champagne

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French term or phrase:champagne bullisant
English translation:bubbling champagne
Entered by: Barbara Cochran, MFA

00:36 May 18, 2007
French to English translations [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / Poetry
French term or phrase: champagne bullisant
In a poem about the fear of not being loved (having a lover).

Context: (the last lines of the poem).

"...Repondeur qui clignote,
Messages qui radotent,
Amour qui pietine,
Coeur epris.
Mains pas prises.
**Champagne bullisant.""
Musique Trintignant.

Can't find "bulliser" anywhere. Is this just "bubbling champagne?"

Thanks,

femme
Barbara Cochran, MFA
United States
Local time: 11:43
bubbling bubbly
Explanation:
or bubbling champagne

redundant poetic licence

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Note added at 31 mins (2007-05-18 01:07:24 GMT)
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sounds like rap to me
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Odette Grille (X)
Canada
Local time: 11:43
Grading comment
Thanks for confirming my translation.
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Summary of answers provided
4 +7bubbling bubbly
Odette Grille (X)
4champagne fizzing
Carol Gullidge
3bubbly champagne
swisstell
3bubblizing
danièle davout


  

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30 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
bubbly champagne


Explanation:
We have some very elaborate dictionaries in our home - my wife being French - but there is no direct reference to this word. I can only surmise that it means bubbly, in connection with Champagne.

swisstell
Italy
Local time: 17:43
Works in field
Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in category: 4
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30 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +7
bubbling bubbly


Explanation:
or bubbling champagne

redundant poetic licence

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Note added at 31 mins (2007-05-18 01:07:24 GMT)
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sounds like rap to me

Odette Grille (X)
Canada
Local time: 11:43
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thanks for confirming my translation.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Ingeborg Gowans (X)
8 mins
  -> Danke Ingeborg
agree  Katarina Peters: I'd go with bubbling champagne
20 mins
  -> Thanks Katarina. I put bubbling bubbly mainly because I thought at least it was funny and a little awkward like the neologism ; it is not a very happy one to my taste but how dare I judge....
agree  Kim Metzger
21 mins
  -> Thank you Kim
agree  Alison Jeffries-Thierry: yes bubbling champagne, bubbling bubbly is ungainly in English ... OK for an ad, but not for this context
2 hrs
  -> Ungainly is the word, just what « bulliser » is. Thanks Alison
neutral  danièle davout: avec champagne cela devient vraiment redondant, ceci dit c'est plus poétique que mon bubblizing
4 hrs
  -> Merci Danièle. Votre bubblizing me paraît du même registre que bulliser qui n'est pas très joli, mais pour les romantiques, le beau c'est le laid !
agree  Vicky Papaprodromou
5 hrs
  -> Merci Vicky
agree  Mark Nathan
6 hrs
  -> Merci Mark
agree  katsy: I like bubbling champagne too...
6 hrs
  -> Merci Katsy
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
bubblizing


Explanation:
bullisant est une "construction maison" bulle + iser:
La base est un substantif ; le sens du verbe est « transformer en » + substantif. et/ou « soumettre à (l'action de) » + substantif.] (atilf.fr)
On rencontre quelques verbes intransitif. formés à partir d'une base subsantif. et signifiant soit « faire preuve de » + substantif
j'exclus ce cas qui correspondrait à bubbling, c'est subjectif !
j'exclus le sens argotique de bulle
transformer en bulle : idée de légèreté, ébriété aussi, de vide peut-être, de plaisir éphémère
bubblizing qui correspondrait à cette construction respecterait le choix poétique de l'auteur (Rq personnelle je trouve ces deux mots également laids)



danièle davout
Local time: 16:43
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 8
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3 days 16 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
champagne fizzing


Explanation:
It seems more natural to transpose the words - imagine "champagne fizzing/sparkling in the glass...", and "fizzing" also has the advantage of being onomatopoeic, if that helps!

A couple of egs:

Amazon.co.uk: Screwpull Champagne Star & Crown Set: Kitchen & Home

I have owned one of these champagne stoppers for over five years. It is the only one that I have known that can keep Champagne fizzing for up to a month. ...
www.amazon.co.uk/Screwpull-Champagne-Star-Crown-Set/dp/B000... - 69k - Cached - Similar pages


Babettes Gaestebud

... glow of glasses of sherry and champagne and red wine against the black clothing ... the sounds of cutlery and conversation and champagne fizzing (gentle ...
www.filmreference.com/Films-Aw-Be/Babettes-Gaestebud.html - 19k - Cached - Similar pages

Carol Gullidge
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:43
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 80
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