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noun Zoology . the fat layer between the skin and muscle of whales and other cetaceans, from which oil is made.
excess body fat.
an act of weeping noisily and without restraint.
verb (used without object) to weep noisily and without restraint: Stop blubbering and tell me what's wrong.
verb (used with object) to say, especially incoherently, while weeping: The child seemed to be blubbering something about a lost ring.
to contort or disfigure (the features) with weeping.
adjective disfigured with blubbering; blubbery: She dried her blubber eyes.
fatty; swollen; puffed out (usually used in combination): thick, blubber lips; blubber-faced.
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Origin of blubber 1250–1300; Middle English bluber bubble, bubbling water, entrails, whale oil; apparently imitative
OTHER WORDS FROM blubber blub·ber·er, noun blub·ber·ing·ly, adverb Words nearby blubber blowup, blowy, BLS, BLT, blub, blubber , blubberhead, blubbery, blucher, bludge, bludgeon
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Example sentences from the Web for blubber Scott does not come off as a conventionally conceived gigglebox made of blubber .
Ladies’ Night | Stanley Crouch| March 29, 2009| DAILY BEAST
The blubber is esteemed the most delicate part; but even the skin is eaten, although it requires much cooking in the oven.
Voyage Of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Vol. 2 (of 2) | John MacGillivray
They subsisted on shell fish, putrid whale's blubber , or a few tasteless berries and fungi.
An Introduction to the History of Science | Walter Libby
Petersen saw and fired a shot into a narwhal, which brought the blubber out.
In the Arctic Seas | Francis Leopold McClintock
The amount of seal and sea-elephant steak and blubber consumed by our hungry party was almost incredible.
South! | Sir Ernest Shackleton
In winter, blubber and meat are put away upon these pillars, which are sufficiently high to keep them from the dogs.
The Central Eskimo | Franz Boas
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British Dictionary definitions for blubber verb to sob without restraint
to utter while sobbing
(tr) to make (the face) wet and swollen or disfigured by crying
SEE MORE SEE LESS noun a thick insulating layer of fatty tissue below the skin of aquatic mammals such as the whale: used by man as a source of oil
informal excessive and flabby body fat
the act or an instance of weeping without restraint
Australian an informal name for jellyfish
SEE MORE SEE LESS adjective (often in combination) swollen or fleshy blubber-faced ; blubber-lips
Derived forms of blubber blubberer , noun Word Origin for blubber C12: perhaps from Low German blubbern to bubble , of imitative origin
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Words related to blubber whale, sob, wail, swell, whimper, whine, fat, nettle, seethe, swollen, thick, weep, flab, flitch, blub
Scientific definitions for blubber The thick layer of fat between the skin and the muscle layers of whales and other marine mammals. It insulates the animal from heat loss and serves as a food reserve.
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