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blubber1 /ˈblʌbə /noun [mass noun]1The fat of sea mammals, especially whales and seals.Fish oil supplements are derived from a variety of sources, including mackerel, herring, tuna, salmon, cod liver, halibut, whale blubber and seal blubber....- The name was coined by whalers, who considered the species the ‘right’ whale to hunt because its blubber makes dead whales float, aiding recovery of the carcass.
- The answer is all too mundane: The blobs are old whale blubber.
Synonyms 1.1 informal, derogatory Excessive human fat: he preferred a girl with a bit of blubber on her...- A word every prep fears, due to the fact they hate seeing a little bit of blubber on anyone, especially themselves.
- In my case, in addition to my belly, my chest was still misshaped from carrying too much blubber.
- I decided to do it just because I have lived with a little too much blubber around my middle for my entire life although the rest of me is quite lean and fat-less.
Synonyms fat, excessive weight, fatness, plumpness, bulk; beer belly, beer gut, paunch informal flab, beef adjective archaic(Of a person’s lips) swollen or protruding.Yet the movement of his blubber lips, closely pressed together, showed clearly that he could not understand a word....- When I looked at his face I saw his blubber lips twitching with the efforts of attempted smile, but he couldn't quite carry it off.
- He sat down with dignity, answered diplomatically certain mysterious questions about the dames, and applied his blubber lips to a handsome mouthpiece of lemon-coloured amber.
Alteration of obsolete blabber 'swollen' Derivatives blubbery /ˈblʌbəri / adjective ...- Overweight, blubbery, unfit bodies are no great advantage at 19,000 feet and so the bodies were whipped into (some sort of) shape.
- I was a little bit blubbery, to be honest, but Chelsea was all excited.
- Those huge, rubbery, blubbery, slobbering slabs of meat; oh, it was just gross!
Origin Late Middle English (denoting the foaming of the sea, also a bubble on water): perhaps symbolic; compare with blob and blotch. Rhymes clubber, grubber, lubber, rubber, scrubber, snubber |