Blubber
['blʌbə] or ['blʌbɚ]
Definition
(noun.) an insulating layer of fat under the skin of whales and other large marine mammals; used as a source of oil.
(verb.) utter while crying.
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Definition
(n.) A bubble.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A large sea nettle or medusa.
(v. i.) To weep noisily, or so as to disfigure the face; to cry in a childish manner.
(v. t.) To swell or disfigure (the face) with weeping; to wet with tears.
(v. t.) To give vent to (tears) or utter (broken words or cries); -- with forth or out.
Editor: Pierre
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Whale fat.
v. n. Cry (so as to swell the cheeks), whine, whimper, weep.
Typist: Rosanna
Definition
n. the fat of whales and other sea animals.—v.i. to weep effusively.—p.adj. Blubb′ered of a face swollen with weeping.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
The useful product of a dead whale. The useless product of a live baby.
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Examples
- Laws, Missis, if you's to whip all day, couldn't say no other way, said Topsy, beginning to blubber. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He was not going to blubber before a set of strangers. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- They subsisted on shell fish, putrid whale's blubber, or a few tasteless berries and fungi. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- That gave thee too much emotion and thee ran blubbering down the bridge like a woman. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The boy gave the sausage to a peasant, who had very nearly seized it, and stood at the foot of the mast, blubbering, because he was unsuccessful. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Molly, the housemaid, blubbered in the passage when he went away--Molly kind and faithful in spite of a long arrear of unpaid wages. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Editor: Michel