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Synonyms for blubber

Grammar : Verb
Spell : bluhb-er
Phonetic Transcription : ˈblʌb ər

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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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