blub

[ bluhb ]

/ blʌb /

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noun

a swelling of fresh plasterwork.

Nearby words

bls, bls., blt, blu-ray, blu-tack, blub, blubber, blubberhead, blubbery, blucher, bludge

Origin of blub

First recorded in 1550–60; variant of blob

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Examples from the Web for blub

Only kick their souls out of 'em, and they go and blub in the box-rooms.
Stalky & Co.|Rudyard Kipling
Like to see them sitting round in a ring with blub lips, entranced, listening.
Ulysses|James Joyce
Number Five dredge trembled, with a wet sucking sound, and settled back into the mud, blub—blub—blub.
The Native Soil|Alan Edward Nourse
Muriel would be sure to blub; Chuck had seen her that morning.
Phyllis|Dorothy Whitehill

He says no one has ever seen a Gherkin blub; if they have to, they go and do it somewhere else.
Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 2, 1914|Various

British Dictionary definitions for blub

blub

/ (blʌb) /

verb blubs, blubbing or blubbed

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

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blub

noun

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British Dictionary definitions for blub

blub

verb blubs, blubbing or blubbed