blub
/blʌb
/verb (blubs, blubbing, blubbed) [no object] informal
Cry noisily and uncontrollably; sob: their mummies blub when they kiss them goodbye she had the urge to blub her eyes out...
- I was ok for the most part until my cousin went to speak, and then I could no longer restrain my tears, and blubbed hideously into the tissues I'd luckily remembered to bring with me, turning them into soggy balls of snot and tears.
- When they eventually troop off, and away, I blub and snivel for hours because the house is suddenly so terribly empty.
- Its very sad and I always recall blubbing at the end.
Origin
Early 19th century: abbreviation of blubber2.
Rhymes
- up to one's ears in
- up to one's elbows in
- up to one's neck in
- up to one's (old) tricks
- up top
- up to par
- up to putty
- up to scratch
- up to snuff
- up to speed
- (up) to the hilt
- up to the mark
- up to the minute
- up to the (or one's) eyeballs
- up to the (or one's) eyes (in)
- uptown
- uptowner
- uptrend
- upturn
- UPU
- uPVC
- upvote
- upward
- upwardly
- upwardly mobile