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Meanings of blubber in English

Portuguese
fertilidade
Spanish
grasa

Excess bodily weight.

      fertilidade
      Catalan
      ploriquejar
      Spanish
      lloriquear

      Cry or whine with snuffling.

            ploriquejar
            Catalan
            plorinyar

            Utter while crying.

                  plorinyar
                  Usage of blubber in English
                  1
                  There was a blubber from the egregious old woman in the threshold.
                  The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel
                  2
                  Karl had already began to blubber in anticipation of the whipping due.
                  Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative
                  3
                  But only one is likely to be definitively answered: will Lance blubber?
                  The Irish Times
                  4
                  He didn't want to blubber, but he couldn't seem to help it.
                  Salem’s Lot
                  5
                  Now, 90 years on, their doctor's blubber-stained notes are to be auctioned.
                  The Guardian
                  6
                  By the middle of February the blubber question was a serious one.
                  South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917
                  7
                  The remainder carry up the meat and blubber, or look for seals.
                  South with Scott
                  8
                  Then gas came along and you'd be stuck with your whale blubber.
                  The Guardian
                  9
                  The blubber stove was made of an old oil tin cut down.
                  South with Scott
                  10
                  Fried slices of blubber seem to our taste to resemble crisp bacon.
                  South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917
                  11
                  Maisanguaq, with unconcealed hesitation, placed a bit of blubber before the magician.
                  The Eternal Maiden
                  12
                  Unprotesting, he let them draw away his sled of blubber and tusks.
                  The Eternal Maiden
                  13
                  Here I piled, I should say, a ton of meat and blubber.
                  The Treasure of the Incas: A Story of Adventure in Peru
                  14
                  Then counterattack claimed I needed cardio for the blubber on my ass.
                  Lit: a memoir
                  15
                  Still chanting, he handed each explorer a small cube of whale blubber.
                  Lost in the Air
                  16
                  You don't mind if I blubber all over my keyboard, do you?
                  Wired
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                  Translations for blubber
                  Blubber through the time
                  Blubber across language varieties
                  United Kingdom
                  Common
                  United States of America
                  Less common