Blub
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /blʌb/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Blub is a verb meaning To cry, whine or blubber (usually carries a connotation of disapproval).
Meaning
To cry, whine or blubber (usually carries a connotation of disapproval).
More Meanings
- The act of blubbing.
- (attributively) Swollen, puffed, protruding.
- (obsolete) To swell; to puff out, as with weeping.
Example Sentences
Yes. I know where she is. She's blubbing behind the gym. Shall I fetch her out?
Baddle, Thompson-Wright and Wardle had been caned for giving cheek. Thompson-Wright had blubbed, the others hadn't.
[…] hang me, then, if I've the heart to come again to the old place, till I've had a thorough good blub, and that's the fact of it […]
Why does EVERYONE cry at a wedding? Nat thought, stomping her way up the little stone steps to the balcony where the church organs always were. I know people DO blub, she thought, but this is ridiculous.
Word Forms
- blubs
- blubbing
- blubbed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include blubber, beblubber, bubble, blat, bawl, bleat.
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