Blubber

//ˈblʌbə//

Synonyms for "blubber" (145 found)

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Translations

100 translations across 26 languages.

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Bulgarian

2 entries
  • плача с глас verb (to cry or weep freely and noisily — see also sob)
  • хълцам verb (to cry or weep freely and noisily — see also sob)

Catalan

4 entries
  • greix noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found immediately beneath the epidermis of whales and other cetaceans)
  • greix noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found in other animals)
  • greix noun (person’s fat tissue, usually when regarded as excessive and unsightly)
  • ploriquejar verb (to cry or weep freely and noisily — see also sob)

Czech

3 entries
  • velrybí tuk noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found in other animals)
  • brečet verb (to cry or weep freely and noisily — see also sob)
  • bulit verb (to cry or weep freely and noisily — see also sob)

Finnish

4 entries
  • läski noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found in other animals)
  • parku noun (act of crying or weeping freely and noisily)
  • rasvakudos noun (person’s fat tissue, usually when regarded as excessive and unsightly)
  • silava noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found in other animals)

French

4 entries
  • lard noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found immediately beneath the epidermis of whales and other cetaceans)
  • lard noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found in other animals)
  • lard noun (person’s fat tissue, usually when regarded as excessive and unsightly)
  • chialer verb (to cry or weep freely and noisily — see also sob)

German

4 entries
  • Blubber noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found immediately beneath the epidermis of whales and other cetaceans)
  • Blubber noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found in other animals)
  • Speck noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found immediately beneath the epidermis of whales and other cetaceans)
  • Walspeck noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found immediately beneath the epidermis of whales and other cetaceans)

Greenlandic

1 entries
  • orsoq noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found in other animals)

Hungarian

4 entries
  • bálnazsír noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found in other animals)
  • fókazsír noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found in other animals)
  • halzsír noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found in other animals)
  • háj noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found immediately beneath the epidermis of whales and other cetaceans)

Icelandic

1 entries
  • rengi noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found immediately beneath the epidermis of whales and other cetaceans)

Inuktitut

1 entries
  • ᐅᖅᓱᖅ noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found in other animals)

Inupiaq

1 entries
  • nutaġiñġaq noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found in other animals)

Irish

3 entries
  • blonag noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found immediately beneath the epidermis of whales and other cetaceans)
  • blonag noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found in other animals)
  • blonag noun (person’s fat tissue, usually when regarded as excessive and unsightly)

Italian

2 entries
  • adipe noun (person’s fat tissue, usually when regarded as excessive and unsightly)
  • pannicolo noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found in other animals)

Japanese

2 entries
  • 皮下脂肪 noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found immediately beneath the epidermis of whales and other cetaceans)
  • 泣き喚く verb (to cry or weep freely and noisily — see also sob)

Kyrgyz

3 entries
  • ворвань noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found in other animals)
  • өксө verb (to cry or weep freely and noisily — see also sob)
  • өкүр verb (to cry or weep freely and noisily — see also sob)

Macedonian

4 entries
  • липање noun (act of crying or weeping freely and noisily)
  • маст noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found immediately beneath the epidermis of whales and other cetaceans)
  • маст noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found in other animals)
  • плач noun (act of crying or weeping freely and noisily)

Malay

1 entries
  • lemak paus noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found in other animals)

Middle Dutch

1 entries
  • smeer noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found in other animals)

Māori

4 entries
  • ngako noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found immediately beneath the epidermis of whales and other cetaceans)
  • ngako noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found in other animals)
  • ngako noun (person’s fat tissue, usually when regarded as excessive and unsightly)
  • pakawēra noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found immediately beneath the epidermis of whales and other cetaceans)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries
  • hvalspekk noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found in other animals)
  • spekk noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found in other animals)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries
  • spekk noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found in other animals)

Portuguese

4 entries
  • banha noun (person’s fat tissue, usually when regarded as excessive and unsightly)
  • gordura noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found in other animals)
  • gordura noun (person’s fat tissue, usually when regarded as excessive and unsightly)
  • panículo adiposo noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found immediately beneath the epidermis of whales and other cetaceans)

Russian

4 entries
  • во́рвань noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found immediately beneath the epidermis of whales and other cetaceans)
  • жир noun (person’s fat tissue, usually when regarded as excessive and unsightly)
  • подко́жный жир noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found immediately beneath the epidermis of whales and other cetaceans)
  • подко́жный жир noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found in other animals)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries
  • mȃsno tkȋvo noun (person’s fat tissue, usually when regarded as excessive and unsightly)
  • mȃsnī omòtāč noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found in other animals)
  • pòtkožno sȁlo noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found immediately beneath the epidermis of whales and other cetaceans)
  • pòtkožno sȁlo noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found in other animals)

Swedish

1 entries
  • späck noun (fatty layer of adipose tissue found in other animals)

Ukrainian

2 entries
  • ревіти verb (to cry or weep freely and noisily — see also sob)
  • ридати verb (to cry or weep freely and noisily — see also sob)

Sample sentences

37 total sentences available.

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Atuqtuaq put the blubber into the wooden box.

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Atuqtuaq helps his mother take the blubber from the seal carcass.

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Atuqtuaq eats the seal blubber uncooked.

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Since sea otters lack blubber, they burn calories quickly and eat up to 25 percent of their body weight a day.

Source: tatoeba (6604337)

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