Blub
adj, noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 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 […]"
- 1 To cry, whine or blubber (usually carries a connotation of disapproval).
"The grotesquely ornamented goats, crazed by the Hamelin piping, stampeded toward him. They piled up, shoving one another from the causeway, screaming with almost human agony as the black mud and the quicksand caught them, screaming till their shrieks blubbed into silence."
- 2 cry or whine with snuffling wordnet
- 3 To swell; to puff out, as with weeping. obsolete
- 1 Swollen, puffed, protruding. attributive, not-comparable
"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."
Example
More examples"The grotesquely ornamented goats, crazed by the Hamelin piping, stampeded toward him. They piled up, shoving one another from the causeway, screaming with almost human agony as the black mud and the quicksand caught them, screaming till their shrieks blubbed into silence."
Etymology
Onomatopoeic. Compare bleb and blob.
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