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Definitions for Blubber

[1] Zoology . the fat layer between the skin and muscle of whales and other cetaceans, from which oil is made.
[2] excess body fat.
[3] an act of weeping noisily and without restraint.
[4] to weep noisily and without restraint: Stop blubbering and tell me what's wrong.
[5] to say, especially incoherently, while weeping: The child seemed to be blubbering something about a lost ring.
[6] to contort or disfigure (the features) with weeping.
[7] disfigured with blubbering; blubbery: She dried her blubber eyes.
[8] fatty; swollen; puffed out (usually used in combination): thick, blubber lips; blubber-faced.
[9] to sob without restraint
[10] to utter while sobbing
[11] (tr) to make (the face) wet and swollen or disfigured by crying
[12] a thick insulating layer of fatty tissue below the skin of aquatic mammals such as the whale: used by man as a source of oil
[13] informal excessive and flabby body fat
[14] the act or an instance of weeping without restraint
[15] Australian an informal name for jellyfish
[16] (often in combination) swollen or fleshy blubber-faced ; blubber-lips

Words related to Blubber

whale, sob, wail, swell, whimper, whine, fat, nettle, seethe, swollen, thick, weep, flab, flitch, blub

Words nearby Blubber

bls., blt, blu-ray, blu-tack, blub, blubber, blubberhead, blubbery, blucher, bludge, bludgeon

Origin of Blubber

1250–1300; Middle English bluber bubble, bubbling water, entrails, whale oil; apparently imitative

Other words from Blubber

blub·ber·er , noun
blub·ber·ing·ly , adverb

Word origin for Blubber

C12: perhaps from Low German blubbern to bubble , of imitative origin

Synonyms for Blubber

blub, fat, flab, flitch, nettle, seethe, sob, swell, swollen, thick, wail, weep, whale, whimper, whine