[ US /ˈbɫəbɝ/ ]
[ UK /blˈʌbɐ/ ]
VERB
  1. utter while crying
  2. cry or whine with snuffling
    Stop snivelling--you got yourself into this mess!
NOUN
  1. an insulating layer of fat under the skin of whales and other large marine mammals; used as a source of oil
  2. excess bodily weight
    she disliked fatness in herself as well as in others
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How To Use blubber In A Sentence

  • They are very much secluded from the rest of Chiloe, and have scarcely any sort of commerce, except sometimes in a little oil, which they get from seal-blubber. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
  • Trey listened with a patient ear, only making distance with the receiver when she whined or couldn't make out her blubbering.
  • They are knee-deep in gelid gray water, with food and clothing, skinned seagulls and whale blubber, sheepskins and oilskins - the ancient flotsam of death at sea - sloshing about them.
  • The baby whale develops a thick layer of blubber to protect it from the cold sea.
  • Maybe then I'll lose some of my blubber, 'cause really you didn't have much to lose, sweet cheeks.
  • No, not fat as in gross blubber bouncing around my waist and stuff; it's just that I think I'm about a few pounds heavier than I was when I was really fit in first year.
  • The UK has become a vast blubber mountain. The Sun
  • When we tried to microwave some frozen whale blubber sent down from Barrow, we ended up laughing as the muktuk sizzled and got tough. Ellen Frankenstein: From Tofu to Muktuk
  • blubber cheeks
  • Fish oil supplements are derived from a variety of sources, including mackerel, herring, tuna, salmon, cod liver, halibut, whale blubber and seal blubber.
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