Synonyms for blubber

Grammar : Verb

Spell : bluhb-er

Phonetic Transcription : ˈblʌb ər

Top 10 synonyms for blubber

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Définition of blubber

Origin : late 14c., blober "a bubble, bubbling water; foaming waves," probably echoic of bubbling water. Original notion of "bubbling, foaming" survives in the figurative verbal meaning "to weep, cry" (c.1400). Meaning "whale fat" first attested 1660s; earlier it was used in reference to jellyfish (c.1600) and of whale oil (mid-15c.). As an adjective from 1660s.

verb cry

Example sentences :

To grapple with this rigour one should have fed all one's life on blubber.
Extract from : « The Frozen Pirate » by W. Clark Russell

Them chaps, whoever they are, have been killing seals and boiling the blubber.
Extract from : « The Beach of Dreams » by H. De Vere Stacpoole

The skins were needed for boots, the flesh for dog food, and the blubber for oil.
Extract from : « Left on the Labrador » by Dillon Wallace

So he winked, too, at his mother, and tried to blubber a "thank you."
Extract from : « The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper » by Martin Farquhar Tupper

Then he begins to blubber, and leak brine, and take on like a woman with a sick headache.
Extract from : « Torchy » by Sewell Ford

If we can secure the blubber we shall be no longer in want of fuel.
Extract from : « The Voyages of the Ranger and Crusader » by W.H.G. Kingston

A word or two more concerning this matter of the skin or blubber of the whale.
Extract from : « Moby Dick; or The Whale » by Herman Melville

Thousands of casks of oil can be obtained from its blubber, and with this ye can trade.
Extract from : « Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends » by Gertrude Landa

To strip the fat off a flayed seal, or the blubber from a whale.
Extract from : « The Sailor's Word-Book » by William Henry Smyth

The carcass of a whale after being flinched or the blubber stripped off.
Extract from : « The Sailor's Word-Book » by William Henry Smyth

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