Blubber

Quick meaning: Blubber is a verb meaning Often followed by out: to cry out (words) while sobbing.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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: […]

Word Forms

• blubbers
• blubbering
• blubbered
• blubberest
• blubberedst
• blubbereth

Synonyms for blubber

Depending on context, synonyms include beweep, cry, greet, wail, weep, sobber.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include snuffle, sniffle, snivel, fat, blubbery, pork.

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