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View synonyms for blub

blub

[ bluhb ]

noun

  1. a swelling of fresh plasterwork.


blub

/ blʌb /

verb

  1. a slang word for blubber blubber blubber
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of blub1

First recorded in 1550–60; variant of blob
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Example Sentences

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.

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