바글바글
ba-geul-ba-geul
A boiling pot and a packed shop get the same word
The picture Small things rising and knocking into each other without pause inside a tight space. 바글바글 is small things seething in a tight space; 텅텅 is empty with nothing in it.
Where the picture shows up in 바글바글
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bubbles that never pause
찌개가 바글바글 끓어요.
jji-gae-ga ba-geul-ba-geul kkeu-reo-yo
The stew is bubbling away.
Small bubbles breaking one after another all around the rim of the pot
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a shop with no gaps
가게 안에 사람이 바글바글해요.
ga-ge a-ne sa-ra-mi ba-geul-ba-geu-rae-yo
The shop is packed with people.
The door opens on people moving with no space left between shoulder and shoulder
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anger boiling inside
화가 나서 속이 바글바글 끓었어요.
hwa-ga na-seo so-gi ba-geul-ba-geul kkeu-reo-sseo-yo
I was angry and it boiled inside me.
Sitting there saying nothing while only the inside of the chest keeps churning
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laundry boiled long
빨래를 바글바글 삶았어요.
ppal-lae-reul ba-geul-ba-geul sal-ma-sseo-yo
I boiled the laundry thoroughly.
Towels turning and surfacing again and again in a big pot of foam
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ants gathered into one mass
개미가 바글바글 모였어요.
gae-mi-ga ba-geul-ba-geul mo-yeo-sseo-yo
Ants have swarmed all over.
Ants layering over a dropped piece of biscuit until it is one dark lump
All of it in one picture
바글바글 is one picture: small things seething in a tight space. In a pot it is bubbles rising without pause; in a shop it is no gap left between people; inside the chest it is anger boiling with nothing said. In a cauldron it is laundry boiled long, and on the ground it is ants gathered into one dark mass.