Definitions for blubbers

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blubbers blub·ber

Spelling: [bluhb-er]

IPA: /ˈblʌb ər/

Blubbers is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 144 anagrams from letters in blubbers (bbbelrsu).

Definitions for blubbers

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 blubbers

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

Examples for blubbers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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