Green’s Dictionary of Slang

cheated, swindled.

1719		in D’Urfey Pills to Purge Melancholy I 348: With his Broad Gold may treat his Pliant Dear, / Without being shown a Bubbled Coxcomb here.
1762		Bridges Homer Travestie (1764) II 62: What could the bubbl’d king do better / Than cheat him with uriah’s letter?
1772		Bridges Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 241: What could the bubbl’d king do better / Than cheat him with uriah’s letter.
1812		‘Architectural Atoms’ in H. Smith Rejected Addresses 92: The dustman, bubbled flat, / thinks ’tis for him, and doffs his fan-tail’d hat.