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blub

[bluhb]
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noun
  1. a swelling of fresh plasterwork.
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Origin of blub

First recorded in 1550–60; variant of blob
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Examples from the Web for blub

Historical Examples

  • 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

  • Muriel would be sure to blub; Chuck had seen her that morning.

    Phyllis

    Dorothy Whitehill

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

    Lost Diaries

    Maurice Baring

  • Like to see them sitting round in a ring with blub lips, entranced, listening.

    Ulysses

    James Joyce

  • Only kick their souls out of 'em, and they go and blub in the box-rooms.

    Stalky & Co.

    Rudyard Kipling

British Dictionary definitions for blub

blub

verb blubs, blubbing or blubbed
  1. British a slang word for blubber (def. 1), blubber (def. 2), blubber (def. 3)
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Word Origin and History for blub

n.

"fit of weeping," 1894, imitative. As a verb by 1843. Related: Blubbed; blubbing.

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