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blubber

[bluhb-er] / ˈblʌb ər /
VERB
cry noisily
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Antonyms
STRONGEST
WEAK


NOUN
animal or human fat
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Without fail, the miniature version of me would blubber at Sully the polka dot monster reuniting with Boo, and Marlin the clownfish traversing the ocean to find his son.

From Salon Jun. 6, 2026

On the business end, there is a 3cm metal tip that plucks a piece of skin and blubber from the whale’s body.

From BBC Jun. 7, 2024

They swim slowly and near shore, have thick blubber and float when killed, according to Jessica Crance, a research biologist with the Cetacean Assessment and Ecology Program at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center.

From Seattle Times May 27, 2024

These currently unmonitored chemicals were also present in the blubber of dolphin carcasses that had washed ashore, as well as in the sediment collected near the known dumping area.

From Los Angeles Times May 6, 2024

Soon they all held steaming mugs of hot milk, and Green and the blubber stove were brought back on board.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

The singer himself told The Times in 1992 that the album’s hit ballad, in which a grizzled narrator blubbers over the one that got away, “had a real strong emotional peak on the record.”

From Los Angeles Times May 6, 2026

No other show sent me ping-ponging between uncontrollable giggles and mask-dampening blubbers.

From Washington Post Dec. 7, 2021

Junior blubbers and begs … and finally, to Krug’s satisfaction, does as he’s told.

From The Guardian Sep. 1, 2015

Bill blubbers about the inhumanity crushing him in his job.

From New York Times Jun. 17, 2014

But really I’m thinking, what can you do with a man who blubbers when you make him pancakes?

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick

One night she introduced herself to Jones, who was directing her then-boyfriend in a short play, and, by Waller-Bridge’s account, blubbered incoherently about being an actress.

From Los Angeles Times May 24, 2019

“And yet I still separate my career to before February 2017 and what came after,” he blubbered between heaves of tattle-crying.

From Washington Times Apr. 28, 2019

Bubba blubbered after each of his other three victories, too.

From Chicago Tribune Apr. 9, 2012

“A bunch of sandlotters, those Mets,” he blubbered.

From New York Times Feb. 20, 2012

I said a bunch of other things and blubbered as everyone stared at me.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

On restaurant outings I have pulled up a scene from the cinematic gem “Hoosiers” and gotten choked up while my kids prayed I wouldn’t still be blubbering when the waiter came.

From The Wall Street Journal May 13, 2026

You’re going to just get stern and I’m just going to be a blubbering idiot.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 15, 2023

And I think, you know, it's kind of amazing that Hank comes to him just blubbering and in tears, and the fact that he wants to open up a franchise with him is like, "What?"

From Salon Jun. 13, 2022

And he said he was glad to be travelling with Paralympian Tanni Grey-Thompson, as "I would've just been a blubbering mess otherwise."

From BBC Aug. 25, 2021

I climb out, blubbering like a little kid who skinned her knee.

From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas




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