blubberedadj.
1. Flooded with tears; said of the eyes, cheeks, face; in later usage also, swollen and disfigured with weeping.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > [adjective] > suffused or wet with tears
wet?c1225
beweptc1320
tearyc1374
moistc1390
watery1447
watered1571
blubberedc1575
vaporous1583
swelling1769
moist-eyed1797
c1575 T. Preston Cambyses in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1874) IV. 208 With blubb'red eyes into my arms I will thee take.
1591 E. Spenser Daphnaïda 551 Did rend his haire, and beat his blubbred face.
a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 51/1 A blubber'd Band Of weeping Virgins.
1718 M. Prior Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 96 Dear Cloe, how blubber'd is that pretty Face?
1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun I. vii. 86 Representing the poor girl with blubbered eyes.
a. said of thick protruding lips. Obsolete.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [adjective] > lip or lips > types of
babber-lippedc1400
blab-lippedc1430
blabber-lipped1483
thick-lippeda1529
blobber-lipped1593
blub1603
red-lipped1605
rose-lippeda1616
blubbered1634
sweet-lippeda1644
labrous1656
blobber1670
blubber1677
blubber-lipped1690
red-mouthed1838
blubberous1863
semihiant1873
slobber1895
labrose1905
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 14 I omit their flat noses, and blubberd lips, bigge enough without addition.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 11 Never Pipe Was so profan'd to touch that blubber'd Lip.
1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week iii. 39 Her blubber'd Lip by smutty Pipes is worn.
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the mind > emotion > pride > swelling or inflation with pride > [adjective]
to-bollenc1175
bolledc1375
bolnedc1380
swollenc1386
blown1483
puffed?a1500
inflate?1504
bellieda1533
bladder-puffed1549
uppuffed1573
huffling1582
swellinga1586
upblown1590
tumorous1603
windy1603
windy-headed1603
huffed1605
flown1606
huff-pufft1608
puff-pasted1610
turgid1620
turgent1621
high-blown1623
tympanous1625
bladdered1633
tympaneda1634
tumoured1635
tympanied1637
enormous1641
over-leaven1648
flatulent1658
tympany-like1658
huffy1677
tumefied1677
blubbered1699
full-blown1699
bloated1731
tympanitical1772
inflated1785
pompholygous1855
overblown1864
forblown-
1699 J. Pomfret Poems (1724) 72 Swell'd with Success and blubber'd up with Pride.
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