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Substantiivi
- (uncountable, countable) A fatty layer of adipose tissue found immediately beneath the epidermis of whales and other cetaceans (infraorder Cetacea).
- One who blubs; a blubberer.
- (uncountable) A fatty layer of adipose tissue found in other animals which keeps them warm, especially Arctic animals such as sea lions and Antarctic animals such as penguins.
- (uncountable, informal, chiefly derogatory and offensive) A person's fat tissue, usually when regarded as excessive and unsightly.
- (countable, by extension, archaic) A jellyfish (subphylum Medusozoa).
- (countable, chiefly derogatory) An act of crying or weeping freely and noisily.
- (countable, obsolete) A bubble.
Adjektiivi
- (archaic) Especially of lips: protruding, swollen.
Verbi
- Often followed by out: to cry out (words) while sobbing.
- (archaic, also, figurative) To wet (one's eyes or face) by crying; to beweep; also, to cause (one's face) to disfigure or swell through crying.
- (obsolete) Often followed by forth: to let (one's tears) flow freely.
- (chiefly derogatory) To cry or weep freely and noisily; to sob.
- (obsolete) To bubble or bubble up; also, to make a bubbling sound like water boiling.
Esimerkit
- The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[...]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber.
- At his mouth a blubber stood of foam.
- She wept, she blubbered, and she tore her hair.
- Dear Cloe, how blubbered is that pretty face!
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