blub

UK /blʌb/ US /blʌb/
verb 2noun 1adj 1

Definitions

verb

1

To cry, whine or blubber (usually carries a connotation of disapproval).

The grotesquely ornamented goats, crazed by the Hamelin piping, stampeded toward him. They piled up, shoving one another from the causeway, screaming with almost human agony as the black mud and the quicksand caught them, screaming till their shrieks blubbed into silence.

Yes. I know where she is. She's blubbing behind the gym. Shall I fetch her out?

2

To swell; to puff out, as with weeping.

noun

1

The act of blubbing.

[…] hang me, then, if I've the heart to come again to the old place, till I've had a thorough good blub, and that's the fact of it […]

adj

1

Swollen, puffed, protruding.

He's not going out in bluey specs with the sweat rolling off him to baptise blacks, is he? The glasses would take their fancy, flashing. Like to see them sitting round in a ring with blub lips, entranced, listening.

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