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noun ˈblʌbəˈbləbər mass noun1The fat of sea mammals, especially whales and seals. 海兽脂（尤指鲸脂、海豹脂） Example sentencesExamples - The answer is all too mundane: The blobs are old whale blubber.
- They are knee-deep in gelid gray water, with food and clothing, skinned seagulls and whale blubber, sheepskins and oilskins - the ancient flotsam of death at sea - sloshing about them.
- The amount of contaminants in the meat of sea mammals is also low, but the level of contamination in the blubber of seals and whales is high.
- Charcoal, Propane, Mesquite, whale blubber, whatever gives you the taste that you desire.
- Usually a scientist shows up and says of course it's… whale blubber and covers it up.
- Young and old chewed thin slices of raw whale blubber as quickly as it was being cut off the carcass.
- The smell of the sea was in the air as picnickers feasted on sun-dried halibut, muktuk, whale blubber, and Greenland raisin cake.
- The tongue of the whale was regarded as a delicacy, while salted whale blubber could be bought in any French town.
- He was trying to tell me all you get to eat in Japan is raw fish and whale blubber for every meal.
- Whale meat and blubber is shared out locally, and a small amount is sold to pay for the upkeep of boats.
- The name was coined by whalers, who considered the species the ‘right’ whale to hunt because its blubber makes dead whales float, aiding recovery of the carcass.
- In the 19th century it became an important port of call for ships, whose crews also picked up whale blubber and seal skins there.
- At this point I am taking a coffee break as I retch once again at the thought of whale blubber sitting unhappily in my oesophagus.
- Prior to kerosene lamps, most lamps consisted of whale blubber.
- In other words, there's more to whales and sharks than blubber and dorsal fins; and the sooner we acknowledge this, the longer we may last in the evolutionary game of snakes-and-ladders.
- After they killed the whale - in what looked like food sharing - one killer whale held down the carcass as the others tore the thick, resilient gray whale skin and blubber.
- Because the seal's layer of blubber does not extend to its flippers, veins in the flippers lie close to the surface of the skin, poorly insulated from the ice and cold water.
- Fourteen years later, Norway is preparing to resume the international trade in whale meat with a 10 ton shipment of meat and blubber from minke whales destined for Iceland.
- Fish oil supplements are derived from a variety of sources, including mackerel, herring, tuna, salmon, cod liver, halibut, whale blubber and seal blubber.
- But that business is encountering its own problems, specifically a bottleneck in processing seal blubber for nutritional supplements.
- 1.1derogatory, informal Excessive human fat.
〈非正式，贬〉（人的）赘肉 my six-pack is quickly being covered in blubber Example sentencesExamples - A word every prep fears, due to the fact they hate seeing a little bit of blubber on anyone, especially themselves.
- I decided to do it just because I have lived with a little too much blubber around my middle for my entire life although the rest of me is quite lean and fat-less.
- In my case, in addition to my belly, my chest was still misshaped from carrying too much blubber.
- No, not fat as in gross blubber bouncing around my waist and stuff; it's just that I think I'm about a few pounds heavier than I was when I was really fit in first year.
- Maybe then I'll lose some of my blubber, 'cause really you didn't have much to lose, sweet cheeks.
- Yes I am losing my blubber, but I have tonnes of it left to lose.
Synonyms fat, excessive weight, fatness, plumpness, bulk beer belly, beer gut, paunch informal flab, beef
adjectiveˈblʌbəˈbləbər archaic (of a person's lips) swollen or protruding. 〈古〉（人的嘴唇）肥厚的，突起的 Example sentencesExamples - When I looked at his face I saw his blubber lips twitching with the efforts of attempted smile, but he couldn't quite carry it off.
- Yet the movement of his blubber lips, closely pressed together, showed clearly that he could not understand a word.
- He sat down with dignity, answered diplomatically certain mysterious questions about the dames, and applied his blubber lips to a handsome mouthpiece of lemon-coloured amber.
- There are so many celebrities/non-celebrities that are willing to pay lots of money to have the plastic surgeon to give them that blubber lips.
- She pouted out t her blubber-lips, as if to bellows up wind and sputter in her horse-nostrils; and her chin was curdled, and more than usually prominent with passion.
Derivativesadjective ˈblʌbəri I was a little bit blubbery, to be honest, but Chelsea was all excited. Example sentencesExamples - I've said before that my metabolism wavers sinuously between stallion and walrus, and I've been getting noticeably blubbery in recent months.
- Those huge, rubbery, blubbery, slobbering slabs of meat; oh, it was just gross!
- Overweight, blubbery, unfit bodies are no great advantage at 19,000 feet and so the bodies were whipped into (some sort of) shape.
- And every town on the route seemed to produce at least one blubbery streaker, sliding along the ice on his bum, to relieve the waits between passing groups of skaters.
OriginLate Middle English (denoting the foaming of the sea, also a bubble on water): perhaps symbolic; compare with blob and blotch. Rhymesclubber, grubber, lubber, rubber, scrubber, snubber verb ˈblʌbəˈbləbər [no object]informal Cry noisily and uncontrollably; sob. 〈非正式〉大哭，泣不成声 he was blubbering like a child 他像孩子一样泣不成声。 with direct speech ‘I don't like him,’ blubbered Jonathan “我不喜欢他，"乔纳森啜泣道。 Example sentencesExamples - After a about another half an hour of crying, blubbering, and her trying to tell me how she felt, she finally fell asleep and I softly moved her head to her pillow.
- Ada was blubbering now, tears and snot running down a red face, she opened her mouth to say one more thing, but at the last moment found some resolve.
- He whinnied for his lost mother all that first day and night, blubbering in the corner of the pasture, and he clung to his resentment as he grew into a half-ton adolescent.
- If you ask me these cry babies are simply looking for their fifteen minutes of fame, but surely there are smarter ways to embarrass yourself than to sit around blubbering in an empty football stadium.
- Somehow that thought doesn't seem so foreign, the way she's whimpering and carrying on like that, shaking and blubbering like an overgrown and very ugly baby.
- I burst into tears, blubbering to his retreating form.
- Bring up their two little girls and I'll probably start blubbering.
- Mum asked me why I was crying and I blubbered, ‘Everything.’
- She was crying and blubbering, unable to believe what I was doing.
- I ate buckwheat noodles with rooster sauce and blubbered about having ‘ruined Passover.’
- Back in the light, I turned to find an eight-year-old blubbering at my side.
- Observing so much beauty in a single evening made me exhausted, blubbering like a little girl.
- Finally, blubbering and whining, the papa bear - triumph of American technology - just gave up.
- The same folks blubbering about the reigning obsession with thinness as an insult to fatness are making a disgusting mockery of starving people's plight.
- All you do is sob uncontrollably in the fetal position while blubbering, ‘I miss my Nana!’
- She sobbed, wailed, blubbered, howled, cried and whatever people do to express sorrow hoping that her tears and crying will bring her other half back.
- At last, he asked: ‘How can we help you?’, on which cue I burst into tears and blubbered incoherently.
- Now she's blubbering away all over again about something else.
- So in lieu of packing, I spent Saturday sniffling and blubbering over two years of Scottish detritus.
- Cassidy placed a firm kiss on his cheeks and ushered herself out of the door before the tears could break through the mental dam and she began blubbering again.
Synonyms cry, sob, weep, shed tears, wail, snivel, whimper, howl, mewl, squall
OriginLate Middle English: probably symbolic; compare with blob and blubber1. nounˈbləbərˈbləbər 1The fat of sea mammals, especially whales and seals. 海兽脂（尤指鲸脂、海豹脂） Example sentencesExamples - The amount of contaminants in the meat of sea mammals is also low, but the level of contamination in the blubber of seals and whales is high.
- But that business is encountering its own problems, specifically a bottleneck in processing seal blubber for nutritional supplements.
- He was trying to tell me all you get to eat in Japan is raw fish and whale blubber for every meal.
- Fourteen years later, Norway is preparing to resume the international trade in whale meat with a 10 ton shipment of meat and blubber from minke whales destined for Iceland.
- Usually a scientist shows up and says of course it's… whale blubber and covers it up.
- The smell of the sea was in the air as picnickers feasted on sun-dried halibut, muktuk, whale blubber, and Greenland raisin cake.
- In other words, there's more to whales and sharks than blubber and dorsal fins; and the sooner we acknowledge this, the longer we may last in the evolutionary game of snakes-and-ladders.
- Prior to kerosene lamps, most lamps consisted of whale blubber.
- At this point I am taking a coffee break as I retch once again at the thought of whale blubber sitting unhappily in my oesophagus.
- Fish oil supplements are derived from a variety of sources, including mackerel, herring, tuna, salmon, cod liver, halibut, whale blubber and seal blubber.
- Because the seal's layer of blubber does not extend to its flippers, veins in the flippers lie close to the surface of the skin, poorly insulated from the ice and cold water.
- In the 19th century it became an important port of call for ships, whose crews also picked up whale blubber and seal skins there.
- Young and old chewed thin slices of raw whale blubber as quickly as it was being cut off the carcass.
- Charcoal, Propane, Mesquite, whale blubber, whatever gives you the taste that you desire.
- The name was coined by whalers, who considered the species the ‘right’ whale to hunt because its blubber makes dead whales float, aiding recovery of the carcass.
- After they killed the whale - in what looked like food sharing - one killer whale held down the carcass as the others tore the thick, resilient gray whale skin and blubber.
- Whale meat and blubber is shared out locally, and a small amount is sold to pay for the upkeep of boats.
- The tongue of the whale was regarded as a delicacy, while salted whale blubber could be bought in any French town.
- The answer is all too mundane: The blobs are old whale blubber.
- They are knee-deep in gelid gray water, with food and clothing, skinned seagulls and whale blubber, sheepskins and oilskins - the ancient flotsam of death at sea - sloshing about them.
- 1.1derogatory, informal Excessive human fat.
〈非正式，贬〉（人的）赘肉 my six-pack is quickly being covered in blubber Example sentencesExamples - A word every prep fears, due to the fact they hate seeing a little bit of blubber on anyone, especially themselves.
- Yes I am losing my blubber, but I have tonnes of it left to lose.
- Maybe then I'll lose some of my blubber, 'cause really you didn't have much to lose, sweet cheeks.
- No, not fat as in gross blubber bouncing around my waist and stuff; it's just that I think I'm about a few pounds heavier than I was when I was really fit in first year.
- In my case, in addition to my belly, my chest was still misshaped from carrying too much blubber.
- I decided to do it just because I have lived with a little too much blubber around my middle for my entire life although the rest of me is quite lean and fat-less.
Synonyms fat, excessive weight, fatness, plumpness, bulk
adjectiveˈbləbərˈbləbər archaic attributive (of a person's lips) swollen or protruding. 〈古〉（人的嘴唇）肥厚的，突起的 Example sentencesExamples - He sat down with dignity, answered diplomatically certain mysterious questions about the dames, and applied his blubber lips to a handsome mouthpiece of lemon-coloured amber.
- Yet the movement of his blubber lips, closely pressed together, showed clearly that he could not understand a word.
- There are so many celebrities/non-celebrities that are willing to pay lots of money to have the plastic surgeon to give them that blubber lips.
- She pouted out t her blubber-lips, as if to bellows up wind and sputter in her horse-nostrils; and her chin was curdled, and more than usually prominent with passion.
- When I looked at his face I saw his blubber lips twitching with the efforts of attempted smile, but he couldn't quite carry it off.
OriginLate Middle English (denoting the foaming of the sea, also a bubble on water): perhaps symbolic; compare with blob and blotch. verbˈbləbərˈbləbər [no object]informal Sob noisily and uncontrollably. 〈非正式〉大哭，泣不成声 he was blubbering like a child 他像孩子一样泣不成声。 with direct speech “I don't like him,” blubbered Jonathan “我不喜欢他，"乔纳森啜泣道。 Example sentencesExamples - Observing so much beauty in a single evening made me exhausted, blubbering like a little girl.
- All you do is sob uncontrollably in the fetal position while blubbering, ‘I miss my Nana!’
- I burst into tears, blubbering to his retreating form.
- If you ask me these cry babies are simply looking for their fifteen minutes of fame, but surely there are smarter ways to embarrass yourself than to sit around blubbering in an empty football stadium.
- Back in the light, I turned to find an eight-year-old blubbering at my side.
- She was crying and blubbering, unable to believe what I was doing.
- The same folks blubbering about the reigning obsession with thinness as an insult to fatness are making a disgusting mockery of starving people's plight.
- Ada was blubbering now, tears and snot running down a red face, she opened her mouth to say one more thing, but at the last moment found some resolve.
- Bring up their two little girls and I'll probably start blubbering.
- He whinnied for his lost mother all that first day and night, blubbering in the corner of the pasture, and he clung to his resentment as he grew into a half-ton adolescent.
- Finally, blubbering and whining, the papa bear - triumph of American technology - just gave up.
- Mum asked me why I was crying and I blubbered, ‘Everything.’
- Somehow that thought doesn't seem so foreign, the way she's whimpering and carrying on like that, shaking and blubbering like an overgrown and very ugly baby.
- After a about another half an hour of crying, blubbering, and her trying to tell me how she felt, she finally fell asleep and I softly moved her head to her pillow.
- At last, he asked: ‘How can we help you?’, on which cue I burst into tears and blubbered incoherently.
- She sobbed, wailed, blubbered, howled, cried and whatever people do to express sorrow hoping that her tears and crying will bring her other half back.
- Now she's blubbering away all over again about something else.
- So in lieu of packing, I spent Saturday sniffling and blubbering over two years of Scottish detritus.
- I ate buckwheat noodles with rooster sauce and blubbered about having ‘ruined Passover.’
- Cassidy placed a firm kiss on his cheeks and ushered herself out of the door before the tears could break through the mental dam and she began blubbering again.
Synonyms cry, sob, weep, shed tears, wail, snivel, whimper, howl, mewl, squall
OriginLate Middle English: probably symbolic; compare with blob and blubber. |