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blub

[ bluhb ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

blub

/ blʌb /

Origin of blub¹

First recorded in 1550–60; variant of blob

Number Five dredge trembled, with a wet sucking sound, and settled back into the mud, blub—blub—blub.

Shiny wet, Sonnie-Boy, and blowing their cheeks out like so many blub-blubs.

And from the fern-covered hollows above other voices replied joyously to her reassuring call, "Blub-blub-blub!"

All the time the whistle and blub-blub of bullets filled the air, and all the time the death-list grew.

Christy got very red and looked as if he was going to blub and said that was all.

April 20, 2024flabbergast

[flab-er-gast ]

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