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

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 5, 2025

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.

From Salon Dec. 27, 2024

The country is one of only three in the world that still allow whaling - where whales are hunted for their meat, blubber and oil - along with Japan and Norway.

From BBC Dec. 5, 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

She stood there silently, letting me blubber all over her sweater.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman

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

But if you are planning to take this book to the beach, beware it might get your towel soggy; for almost 300 pages Hannah bawls, blubbers, wails, and weeps.

From Slate Jun. 30, 2012

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

A blubbered and distorted face confronted her; the creature was crying.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

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

"That moment, being about to be announced as Olympic champions, I was gone. I was blubbering," said Daley.

From BBC Jul. 26, 2021

Blake recounted how he woke from a nap behind the stables to find Cora standing over him with her hatchet, blubbering.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead




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