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