Blubber (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  1. the fat layer between the skin and muscle of whales and other cetaceans, from which oil is made.
  2. excess body fat.
  3. an act of weeping noisily and without restraint.
verb (used without object)
  1. to weep noisily and without restraint: Stop blubbering and tell me what's wrong.
verb (used with object)
  1. to say, especially incoherently, while weeping: The child seemed to be blubbering something about a lost ring.
  2. to contort or disfigure (the features) with weeping.
adjective
  1. disfigured with blubbering; blubbery: She dried her blubber eyes.
  2. fatty; swollen; puffed out (usually used in combination): thick, blubber lips; blubber-faced.
verb
  1. to sob without restraint
  2. to utter while sobbing
  3. to make (the face) wet and swollen or disfigured by crying
noun
  1. a thick insulating layer of fatty tissue below the skin of aquatic mammals such as the whale: used by man as a source of oil
  2. excessive and flabby body fat
  3. the act or an instance of weeping without restraint
  4. Australian an informal name for jellyfish
adjective
  1. swollen or fleshy
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