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▪ I. blub, v.
[A variant or parallel form of blob v.]
†I.
1. trans. To swell, puff out with weeping or otherwise. Obs.
1559Mirr. Mag. 112 My face was blown and blub'd with dropsy wan.
†2. intr. To swell, protrude. Obs.
1684Southerne Disappointm. ii. i. Wks. (1721) 101 Her eyes and lips, see how they blubb and pout.
II.
3. Short for blubber v. in sense 4. (colloq.)
1804W. Tarras Poems 124 (Jam.) Your cheeks are sae bleer't, and sae blubbit adown?
4. Short for blubber v. in sense 3, to weep, cry. colloq.
1866A. Dobson in Beeton's Annual 211 Bob privately confessed to me that he always felt inclined to ‘blub’ over those whipper-tunes. 1884Blackmore T. Upmore vi, Keep up your spirits, young fellow, and don't blub. 1899Kipling Stalky 48 Stalky..pretended to blub... Then I blubbed, too. 1928Temple Thurston Portrait of Spy, Paris §1 He was blubbing in her arms.
▪ II. † blub, a. Obs.
An attrib. use of blub v., chiefly used in combination (cf. knock-knee'd) with sense ‘Swollen, puffed, protruding’, as in blub-cheeks, blub-lips; whence in comb. blub-cheeked, blub-faced, etc.
1603Knolles Hist. Turkes (1621) 775 Blub cheeked, and exceeding red faced. 1620Shelton Quix. III. x. 64 A Country Wench..blub-fac'd, and flat-nosed. 1679Shadwell True Widow ii. Wks. 1720 III. 147 You have a pretty pouting about the mouth..and fine little blub-lips.
▪ III. blub, n.|blʌb|
[f. blub v. 4.]
A fit or spell of weeping.
1894G. du Maurier Trilby II. 255 It would do him good once more to have a good blub. 1968Listener 11 July 38/3, I had a good blub down the first five miles of the dual carriageway. |