blubbery

[bluhb-uh-ree]

adjective

1. abounding in or resembling blubber; fat.

2. puffy; swollen.

   blubbery lips.

blubbery

/ ˈblʌbərɪ /

adjective

1. of, containing, or like blubber; fat

2. weeping or with the face disfigured by weeping

Word History and Origins

Origin of blubbery¹

First recorded in 1785–95; blubber + -y ¹

Example Sentences

Of bringing his three now-grown daughters when they were children, laughing as they peeked through the sea lion viewing holes and barked like the blubbery creatures.

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San Francisco’s Sea Lions: Recently sea lion counters tallied 2,000 of the whiskered, blubbery creatures in the water alongside Pier 39 on the city’s northern edge.

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This week, sea lion counters — yes, they exist — tallied 2,000 of the whiskered, blubbery creatures in the water alongside Pier 39 on the city’s northern edge.

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The blubbery horde on Pier 39, she said, probably will clear out by early June, when “the call of the breeding season will call them away.”

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Climate change is stretching the length of time parts of the Far North go without sea ice, which polar bears rely on to hunt their preferred prey: blubbery, calorie-rich seals.

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Related Words

• mournful 
• poignant 
• sad 
• sorrowful 
• watery 
• weeping 
• weepy