(v. t. & i.) To swell; to puff out, as with weeping.
Example Sentences:
(1) Meanwhile, Chelsea fans' disgruntlement grows: "I know Rafa said no more transfers in January but we still need a midfielder and I don't think Roman or Emenalo share their thoughts with Rafa," blubs Mihir Khatwani.
(2) They didn't manage to muster a threat but the mere fact that they prevented Celtic from getting off a shot for a few minutes has audibly raised the tension in the crowd ... 8.03pm BST 18 min: "I hope that the distance travelled explains Celtic's result last week," blubs Ian Kay.
(3) It is a cardinal sin of broadcasting, in my book anyway, to start blubbing on-air.
(4) After watching Kinnock slide to defeat in the 1987 general election, he recalls standing at the Welshman’s shoulder the morning after “ a half-blubbing, mullet-haired 20-year old ”.
(5) "Ah just want to sort out the funeral," she blubbed at the preternaturally patient Chesney, overbite quivering like a hovercraft as the prospect of another 15 years of storylines involving the widow whimpering in her HMP Plot Device netball bib lumbered horrifyingly into view.
(6) Last month, when he lost to Federer in the Wimbledon final, Murray blubbed, feeling he'd let down the hopes of a nation.
(7) But then, considering the emotional power of music and the way it entwines itself around defining moments of your life, I'd find it more pathetic if someone couldn't name a song that made them blub like a big old stupid baby.
(8) 2.49pm GMT Blubbing athlete of the day The skiathlon is proper hardcore activity, and I have immense respect for anyone capable of completing it, let alone doing so faster than anyone else in the entire world.
(9) Thus, instead of Liverpool taking a puncher's chance into the final day, they were left with grown men blubbing on national television and a final 10 minutes that resembled Sideshow Bob stepping on all the rakes .
(10) I'm not saying this is a turnaround like when Andy Murray blubbed and the nation learned to love him.
(11) "People say I come across a bit hard, but you have to be, otherwise you'd be blubbing all the time," she says.
(12) As we said our goodbyes, that group of junior ministers was overcome with grief and began to blub.
(13) While more than 17% of US winners cried at this year's Games, a world-beating 37.5% of Team GB athletes blubbed, according to analysis by the Wall Street Journal .
(14) 2 Kremlin spin-doctors have an explanation for everything Within minutes of Vladimir blubbing in public his spokesman came up with an ingenious explanation: it was the wind.
(15) And my hair's falling out, I'm getting fatter and I keep blubbing, screaming and generally losing it, however charming my customers and friends are.
(16) And please, can I have no emails from bed-wetting kidults blubbing that you can't call us "global warming deniers " because "denier" makes us sound like "Holocaust deniers", and that means you are comparing us to Nazis?
Blubber
Definition:
(n.) A bubble.
(n.) The fat of whales and other large sea animals from which oil is obtained. It lies immediately under the skin and over the muscular flesh.
(n.) A large sea nettle or medusa.
(v. i.) To weep noisily, or so as to disfigure the face; to cry in a childish manner.
(v. t.) To swell or disfigure (the face) with weeping; to wet with tears.
(v. t.) To give vent to (tears) or utter (broken words or cries); -- with forth or out.
Example Sentences:
(1) Increased conversion of 25-OHD to 24,25-(OH)2D and a high capacity for vitamin D storage in their large blubber mass appeared to be factors in the resistance of seals to vitamin D toxicity.
(2) Samples of blubber, liver and kidney were collected from these animals (n = 55) for analysis for a wide range of organochlorine pesticides and also total polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).
(3) Further simulations showed that the lower critical temperature of a lean newborn harp seal pup with standard metabolism is only--1 degree C while it is depressed to--59 degree C as the pup grows, aquire a 10 cm thick layer of blubber and the metabolism increases to 1.5 times standard.
(4) For her, “Sambo” recalls the blubber-lipped, blue-black caricatures of African American children known as piccaninnies , perched on dilapidated porches, half-clothed and dusty, and as happy in squalor and ignorance as they can be.
(5) A considerable loss of blubber fat was recorded, but analysis of the weight loss and body size data indicated that blubber fat was retained for thermoregulatory reasons, particularly in the lean, smaller seals.
(6) Due to high concentration of vitamin A in blubber and the high proportion in blubber to total body weight, the blubber represents approximately 40% of total body reserves of vitamin A.
(7) At birth the pups lack subcutaneous blubber and the wet infantile fur has a conductance value of 30.0 W .
(8) The stem of the structure joins with the symphysis and is usually indicated externally by an unfurrowed median strip of blubber that has been called the "cutwater" by earlier writers.
(9) If the weight of the thick layer of blubber is discounted, the heart is heavy relative to the total body weight as may be expected in an animal capable of fast swimming, great agility and frequent emergence from the water to breathe.
(10) However, Baltic Sea seals, where reproductive failure is apparently associated with high concentrations of DDT and polychlorinated biphenyl in the blubber, may have suffered a decline owing to the presence of these organochlorines.
(11) Samples of blubber, liver, kidney and brain, obtained from 10 male, 6 female neonatal, and 4 lactating female harp seals (Pagophilus groenlandicus), were analysed for DDT, dieldrin, PCB, and total mercury.
(12) The actual blubber residue loads may have been underestimated, because the samples were taken when the whales were depositing fat reserves and the samples may not have been representative of the remainder of the blubber.
(13) We examined the distribution of copper, zinc, selenium, arsenic, cadmium and mercury (total and methyl mercury) in samples of muscle, liver, kidney and blubber from pilot whales (Globicephalus meleanus) caught off the Faroe Islands in 1977 and 1978.
(14) Within minutes the bull whale's blubber has been cut away and hewn into thick white chunks.
(15) We are now halfway through this series about Catholic priest Father Michael Kerrigan and the small flock he attempts to bring succour to in the north west of England – and every week has ended with me blubbering incoherently on the sofa.
(16) Maturation of hookworms did occur in 2 pups exposed to larvae from a mixture of belly blubber, mammary tissue, and milk of pregnant cows.
(17) DDT and polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) compounds were found in blubber tissue samples of 12 North American fin-back whales collected in 1970 and 1971.
(18) Hookworms were not recovered from the intestines of 3 pups receiving larvae from belly blubber of bulls, 6 pups receiving larvae from belly blubber of bachelors, and 1 nonexposed pup.
(19) We know there is exchange between ‘Dutch’ seals and ‘English’ or ‘Scottish’ seals, so there’s ample opportunity for dispersal of this behaviour.” The porpoises are targeted by the seals for their blubber, with healthy and fat juvenile the favoured prey.
(20) The lowest concentration of each metal was found in the blubber.