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noun

Blubber n.

A bubble. "At his mouth a blubber stood of foam."

The fat of whales and other large sea animals from which oil is obtained. It lies immediately under the skin and over the muscular flesh.

(Zool.) A large sea nettle or medusa.

verb

Blubber v. t.

To swell or disfigure (the face) with weeping; to wet with tears. "Dear Cloe, how blubbered is that pretty face!"

To give vent to (tears) or utter (broken words or cries); with forth or out.

Blubber v. i. (past & past part. blubbered; pres. part. blubbering) To weep noisily, or so as to disfigure the face; to cry in a childish manner. "She wept, she blubbered, and she tore her hair."

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"Blubber" Quotes from Famous Books

... man living in Zeeland has seen one even a third as long as this is. The fish cannot get off the land; the people would gladly see it gone, as they fear the great stink, for it is so large that they say it could not be cut in pieces and the blubber boiled down in ...

— Albert Durer • T. Sturge Moore

... to be, yet they knew and dreaded our fire-arms; nothing would tempt them to take a gun in their hands. They begged for knives, calling them by the Spanish word "cuchilla." They explained also what they wanted, by acting as if they had a piece of blubber in their mouth, and then pretending to cut ...

— The Voyage of the Beagle • Charles Darwin

... going into the country (lay together) Periwigg he lately made me cleansed of its nits Presse seamen, without which we cannot really raise men Shakespeare's plays She had the cunning to cry a great while, and talk and blubber There eat and drank, and had my pleasure of her twice These Lords are hard to be trusted Things wear out of themselves and come fair again To my Lord Sandwich, thinking to have dined there Upon a very small occasion had a difference again broke out Very high and ...

— Widger's Quotations from The Diary of Samuel Pepys • David Widger

... is that?" said the Boxer, showing his white teeth and blubber lips in a furious grin, whilst the eyes which he fastened on the poor burgher blazed up once more, as if he was ...

— The Dead Boxer - The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two • William Carleton

... before I have got anything cooked. It is true that I have something from the cooking of yesterday; eat that if you will, while I cook something now." Then she set before them the kidney part of a black seal, with its own blubber as dripping. Now one of the two old men began eating, and went on eagerly, dipping the meat in the dripping. But the other stopped eating ...

— Eskimo Folktales • Unknown

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