blubberer
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a word derived from
blubber.
blubbernounthe fat layer between the skin and muscle of whales and other cetaceans, from which oil is made.
Example Sentences
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“If you’re a blubberer, fine, but do it in the privacy of your own bathroom.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2012
If you were to hang around a courthouse, chances are you would see a good blubberer before you could say “Twenty to life.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2011
This baffles me — and I am an inveterable sniffler and blubberer at sad films.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 28, 2011
This blubberer who had followed me home in the snow, yes this insufferable melancholiac who rained his tears into my Heaven—Mallare would have killed him.
From Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath by Wallace Smith
Tschaikowsky is correctly put down as a highly talented but essentially shallow fellow—a blubberer in the regalia of a philosopher.
From A Book of Prefaces by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken