Definitions for blubber

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blubber blub·ber

Spelling: [bluhb-er]

IPA: /ˈblʌb ər/

Blubber is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in blubber (bbbelru).

Definitions for blubber

noun

1. Zoology. 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.

adjective

1. disfigured with blubbering; blubbery:
2. fatty; swollen; puffed out (usually used in combination):

verb (used with object)

1. to say, especially incoherently, while weeping:
2. to contort or disfigure (the features) with weeping.

verb (used without object)

1. to weep noisily and without restraint:

Origin of blubber

1250-1300; Middle English bluber bubble, bubbling water, entrails, whale oil; apparently imitative

Examples for blubber

A word or two more concerning this matter of the skin or blubber of the whale.

To grapple with this rigour one should have fed all one's life on blubber.

Scott does not come off as a conventionally conceived gigglebox made of blubber.

The skins were needed for boots, the flesh for dog food, and the blubber for oil.

So he winked, too, at his mother, and tried to blubber a "thank you."

To strip the fat off a flayed seal, or the blubber from a whale.

If we can secure the blubber we shall be no longer in want of fuel.

Then he begins to blubber, and leak brine, and take on like a woman with a sick headache.

Them chaps, whoever they are, have been killing seals and boiling the blubber.

Thousands of casks of oil can be obtained from its blubber, and with this ye can trade.