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▪ I. ˈblubbering, vbl. n.
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of weeping profusely and noisily.
1580North Plutarch (1676) 172 Lamentations made at the funerals of the dead, with blubbering and beating themselues. 1741Richardson Pamela (1824) I. xi. 22 He was angry, and said..Cease your blubbering. 1872Darwin Emotions vi. 156 Paroxysms of violent crying or blubbering.
▪ II. ˈblubbering, ppl. a.
Also 4–5 bloberond.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
†1. Bubbling, gurgling (like a spring). Obs.
c1400Destr. Troy 9642 Till the bloberond blode blend with the rayn. 1646Crashaw Steps to Temp. 33 At my feet the blubb'ring mountain, Weeping, melts into a fountain. 1863Baring-Gould Iceland xxi. 363 The bottom of this is also full of little blubbering springs.
2. Shedding tears profusely (obs.); weeping and sobbing noisily and unrestrainedly. A contemptuous expression for ‘weeping’.
1581Newton Seneca's Thebais 49 b, My trickling teares, my blubbring Eyes, may put you out of doubt. 1753J. Collier Art Torment. 46 Begone out of my sight, you blubbering fool. 1862Sat. Rev. 13 Sept. 301 The somewhat scornful astonishment which is aroused in the undeveloped English mind when it is first called upon to sympathize with the blubbering demigods of Ilium.
Hence ˈblubberingly adv.
1835Beckford Recoll. 116 Donna Inez was called..and embraced by his right reverence most blubberingly. 1844Tupper Crock of G. xxv. 202 She..kept calling blubberingly for ‘Simon,—poor dear Simon’. |