blub

[ bluhb ]

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noun

a swelling of fresh plasterwork.

Origin of blub

First recorded in 1550–60; variant of blob

Words Nearby blub

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How to use blub in a sentence

Number Five dredge trembled, with a wet sucking sound, and settled back into the mud, blub—blub—blub.
The Native Soil | Alan Edward Nourse
Shiny wet, Sonnie-Boy, and blowing their cheeks out like so many blub-blubs.
Sonnie-Boy's People | James B. Connolly
And from the fern-covered hollows above other voices replied joyously to her reassuring call, "blub-blub-blub!"
Police!!! | Robert W. Chambers
All the time the whistle and blub-blub of bullets filled the air, and all the time the death-list grew.
Children of the Frost | Jack London
Christy got very red and looked as if he was going to blub and said that was all.
Lost Diaries | Maurice Baring

British Dictionary definitions for blub

blub

/ (blʌb) /

verbblubs, blubbing or blubbed

British a slang word for blubber (def. 1), blubber (def. 2), blubber (def. 3)

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