Blub
a swelling of fresh plasterwork.
Historical Examples
Stalky & Co. Rudyard Kipling
Phyllis Dorothy Whitehill
The Girls of Central High on Lake Luna Gertrude W. Morrison
Ulysses James Joyce
Acton’s Feud Frederick Swainson
English Fairy Tales Flora Annie Steel
Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 2, 1914 Various
Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) Various
Lost Diaries Maurice Baring
The Native Soil Alan Edward Nourse
verb blubs, blubbing, blubbed
(Brit) a slang word for blubber (sense 1), blubber (sense 2), blubber (sense 3)
n.
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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. to weep noisily and without restraint: Stop blubbering and tell me what’s wrong. to say, especially incoherently, while weeping: The child seemed to be blubbering […]
- Blubber-butt
blubber butt
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a stupid, inept person; blockhead.
- Blubbering
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. to weep noisily and without restraint: Stop blubbering and tell me what’s wrong. to say, especially incoherently, while weeping: The child seemed to be blubbering […]
- Blubbery
abounding in or resembling blubber; fat. puffy; swollen: blubbery lips. Historical Examples Sketches New and Old, Part 2. Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) Sketches New and Old, Complete Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) The Open Question Elizabeth Robins The Argus Pheasant John Charles Beecham Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 Various Letters to Helen Keith Henderson adjective […]