blub
verb/blʌb/
Etymology
Onomatopoeic. Compare bleb and blob.
Definitions
To cry, whine or blubber (usually carries a connotation of disapproval).
- Yes. I know where she is. She's blubbing behind the gym. Shall I fetch her out?
- Baddle, Thompson-Wright and Wardle had been caned for giving cheek. Thompson-Wright had blubbed, the others hadn't.
To swell
To swell; to puff out, as with weeping.
The act of blubbing.
- […] hang me, then, if I've the heart to come again to the old place, till I've had a thorough good blub, and that's the fact of it […]
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Swollen, puffed, protruding.
- He's not going out in bluey specs with the sweat rolling off him to baptise blacks, is he? The glasses would take their fancy, flashing. Like to see them sitting round in a ring with blub lips, entranced, listening.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for blub. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA