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Blubber   /blˈəbər/   Listen
Blubber

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.  Synonyms: avoirdupois, fat, fatness.
verb
(past & past part. blubbered; pres. part. blubbering)
1.
Cry or whine with snuffling.  Synonyms: blub, sniffle, snivel, snuffle.
2.
Utter while crying.  Synonym: blubber out.



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"Blubber" Quotes from Famous Books



... the captain explained. "In the old days, when whaling-ships went on three and four year voyages they 'fleshed' the blubber at sea and boiled it down or 'tried it out,' as they called it, into oil. They always carried a cooper along, too, and made their own barrels, so that after a long voyage a ship would come back with her hold full of ...
— The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries • Francis Rolt-Wheeler
... as now, for it freezes," said the bailiff, blowing his fingers. "Come, old fellow, pack up and let us be off; you can blubber as you go along. Who the devil can help the ...
— The Mysteries of Paris V2 • Eugene Sue
... to blubber for," he said; "you can go in and see her if you like t-omorrow morning the first thing. You may go now and sleep in ...
— The Pilot and his Wife • Jonas Lie
... an exploring vessel in the Arctic Seas had killed a walrus, and set fire to part of the blubber. The steam of the flesh drew from afar towards it a she bear and her two cubs. Putting their noses to the tempting mess, they began to eat it eagerly. The seamen, seeing this, threw other pieces on the ice nearer to the ship. The bear incautiously ...
— Stories of Animal Sagacity • W.H.G. Kingston
... in the little 'Grampus'—and Lord love you, Pumpo, you poor land-swab, she WAS as pretty a craft as ever dowsed a tarpauling—there was a woman on board the 'Grampus,' who before we'd struck our first fish, or biled our first blubber, set the whole crew in a mutiny. I mind me of her now, Natty,—her eye was sich a piercer that you could see to steer by it in a Newfoundland fog; her nose stood out like the 'Grampus's' jibboom, and her woice, Lord love you, her woice sings in my ears even now:—it set the Captain ...
— Burlesques • William Makepeace Thackeray


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