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blubber

verb as in cry noisily

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noun as in animal or human fat

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Faced with retirement and missing out on one more Ashes dance, Harris was a "blubbering mess".

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Keep a box of tissues close by: I was a blubbering mess two minutes in, when Hanks follows Murray’s cold open with one of the eulogies from Candy’s funeral.

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Dolphins continue to be poached for their flesh and blubber, from which oil is extracted to use as fishing bait.

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A more definitive answer, however, will have to wait until he receives results from blood, blubber and tissue samples collected from the whale.

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Their evidence included finding stone harpoon points that hadn’t been used since the mid-1800s embedded in the blubber of whales recently killed by traditional whalers.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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