Blubber

/ˈblʌbə/ · verb

Meaning

Often followed by out: to cry out (words) while sobbing..

Definitions by Sense

1. Often followed by out: to cry out (words) while sobbing.
2. To wet (one's eyes or face) by crying; to beweep; also, to cause (one's face) to disfigure or swell through crying.
3. Often followed by forth: to let (one's tears) flow freely.
4. To cry or weep freely and noisily; to sob.
5. To bubble or bubble up; also, to make a bubbling sound like water boiling.
6. (uncountable, countable) A fatty layer of adipose tissue found immediately beneath the epidermis of whales and other cetaceans (infraorder Cetacea).
7. (countable, chiefly derogatory) An act of crying or weeping freely and noisily.
8. (countable, obsolete) A bubble.

Example Sentences

Here Bliſil ſighed bitterly; upon vvhich VVeſtern, vvhoſe Eyes vvere full of Tears at the praiſe of Sophia, blubbered out, 'Don't be Chicken-hearted, for ſhat ha her, d—n me, ſhat ha her, if ſhe vvas tvventy Times as good.'

Her ſvvollen eyes vvere much diſfigured, / And her faire face vvith teares vvas fovvly blubbered.

As God sees the water in the spring in the veins of the earth, before it bubble upon the face of the earth; so God sees tears in the heart of a man, before they blubber his face; God hears the tears of that sorrowful soul, which for sorrow cannot shed tears.

Dear Cloe, how blubber'd is that pretty Face? / Thy Cheek all on Fire, and Thy Hair all uncurl'd: […]

[S]he haſtily retired, taking vvith her her little Girl, vvhoſe eyes vvere all over blubbered at the melancholy Nevvs ſhe heard of Jones, vvho uſed to call her his little VVife, and not only gave her many Playthings, but ſpent vvhole Hours in playing vvith her himſelf.

The opening of the first grammar-school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in church and state; the first row of trammels and pothooks which the little Shearjashubs and Elkanahs blotted and blubbered across their copy-books, was the preamble to the Declaration of Independence.

Looke on this tree, vvhich blubbereth Amber gum / vvhich ſeemes to ſpeak to thee, though it be dumb, / VVhich being ſenceles blocks, as thou do'ſt ſee, / VVeepe at my vvoes, that thou might'ſt pitty mee: […]

Behold her novv in humble guiſe, / Upon her knees vvith dovvncaſt eyes / Before the Prieſt: ſhe thus begins, / And ſobbing, blubbers forth her ſins; […]

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