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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024blub•ber /ˈblʌbɚ/USA pronunciation n. [uncountable]- Zoologythe layer of fat below the skin of a whale.
- excess body fat:With all that blubber, you should go on a diet.
v. - to weep or cry noisily and without restraint: [no object]blubbering about how I never cared about her.[~ + that clause]blubbering that I never cared about her.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024blub•ber (blub′ər),USA pronunciation n. - Zoologythe fat layer between the skin and muscle of whales and other cetaceans, from which oil is made.
- excess body fat.
- an act of weeping noisily and without restraint.
v.i. - to weep noisily and without restraint:Stop blubbering and tell me what's wrong.
v.t. - to say, esp. incoherently, while weeping:The child seemed to be blubbering something about a lost ring.
- to contort or disfigure (the features) with weeping.
adj. - disfigured with blubbering;
blubbery:She dried her blubber eyes. - fatty;
swollen;
puffed out (usually used in combination):thick, blubber lips; blubber-faced.
- 1250–1300; Middle English bluber bubble, bubbling water, entrails, whale oil; apparently imitative
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: blubber /ˈblʌbə/ vb - to sob without restraint
- to utter while sobbing
- (transitive) to make (the face) wet and swollen or disfigured by crying
n - a thick insulating layer of fatty tissue below the skin of aquatic mammals such as the whale: used by man as a source of oil
- informal excessive and flabby body fat
- the act or an instance of weeping without restraint
- Austral
an informal name for jellyfish
adj - (often in combination) swollen or fleshy: blubber-faced, blubber-lips
Etymology: 12th Century: perhaps from Low German blubbern to bubble, of imitative originˈblubberer n |