(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?
Snuffle
Definition:
(v. i.) To speak through the nose; to breathe through the nose when it is obstructed, so as to make a broken sound.
(n.) The act of snuffing; a sound made by the air passing through the nose when obstructed.
(n.) An affected nasal twang; hence, cant; hypocrisy.
(n.) Obstruction of the nose by mucus; nasal catarrh of infants or children.
Example Sentences:
(1) The present results suggested that these P. multocida isolates were the causal agent of rabbits rhinitis (snuffles) in Japan.
(2) Inside was the world's biggest map, depicting all of New York state, laid out in sparkling terrazzo, across which troupes of acrobats and dancers would perform, and the animals of the kiddies' petting zoo would snuffle.
(3) In a double-blind study, diphenylpyraline (Lergobine) was given to 63 patients whose main symptoms were stuffiness of the nose, increased secretion of mucus, snuffling, sneezing and redness of the eyes.
(4) The younger infants had a higher incidence of jaundice and mortality, whereas joint swellings, skin rash, snuffles, anemia, and periosteal reaction visible in x-rays of long bones were typical findings among the older group.
(5) So, I will have to continue trudging down to one or other of the local hospitals for treatment, and get the snuffles, or worse, on the way.
(6) With silhouetted palms at sunset, capybaras bathing in streams, vivid birdlife and viscachas (a type of chinchilla) snuffling around the site at dusk, it’s a photographers’ paradise.
(7) "And Ben," notes his wife, indicating the spaniel snuffling at their feet.
(8) You are in the system, safe from the unregulated badlands of Nickelodeon and its oceans of advertising, the looping hours of Peppa Pig and American imports that run through the night so that other, feral children (not yours) can watch cartoons at 2am while snuffling from bowls of refined sugar.
(9) The other day I had a bit of a snuffle and Justine thought it wouldn’t be a good idea for me to go for a walk in Primrose Hill.
(10) The presence of "snuffles" has traditionally been ascribed, unproven, to an upper respiratory tract infection despite there being no other signs of an acute infection in the majority of infants with "snuffles".
(11) A counterimmunoelectrophoresis (CIE) test was applied to serotype 35 isolates of type D Pasteurella multocida recovered from 32 cases of atrophic rhinitis (in swine) and 3 cases of snuffles (in rabbits).
(12) She has some new bogeymen – shareholders – and is so determined they won't get a groat of her money, that she's sitting snuffling and shivering in her kitchen, by the hob, on the cusp of pneumonia, refusing to turn on her heating.
(13) The previously well-known snuffles, pseudoparalysis and bizarre radiological changes should now be brought to the attention of perhaps more than one generation of physicians who underwent their medical training at the time when the disease was a rarity.
(14) The presence of excess nasal mucus causing noisy nasal breathing with an obvious mucus discharge (snuffles) is a common problem in infants in the first three months of life.
(15) The results suggest that in some infants "snuffles" may be associated with impaired vasomotor control.
(16) Pigs snuffle at the detritus littering its margins.
(17) Four of fifty infants in the control group compared to 22 of 50 in the snuffles group demonstrated postural hypotension (Chi square 16.84, p less than 0.001).
(18) snuffles and being "chesty") in well infants during the first months of life with 32% of the control group having snuffles and 35% described as "chesty".
(19) At night, if I hear him snuffle or whimper in his cot, I sneak over using an iPhone as an impromptu light source so I can see if he needs resettling.
(20) Hepatic and splenic enlargement were present in 12 cases, and nine children had the "snuffles".