blubbering

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We hear a lot about the "track rubbering in", but what exactly is this?

From BBC • Aug. 13, 2024

Old Sally didn't talk much, except to rave about the Lunts, because she was busy rubbering and being charming.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger

“I wonder who those guys are, rubbering around?” is my remark to Murphy, speaking in the vernacular, as we are working away.

From Within Prison Walls being a narrative during a week of voluntary confinement in the state prison at Auburn, New York by Osborne, Thomas Mott

The girls, Jimmie—look at 'em rubbering and gabbling like ducks!

From Every Soul Hath Its Song by Hurst, Fannie

Where the tracing is made directly with pen and ink over a transparency, as is often done, no rubbing is necessary, and of course the phenomena from rubbering do not appear.

From Disputed Handwriting An exhaustive, valuable, and comprehensive work upon one of the most important subjects of to-day. With illustrations and expositions for the detection and study of forgery by handwriting of all kinds by Lavay, Jerome Buell