blubbery
Americanadjective
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of, containing, or like blubber; fat
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weeping or with the face disfigured by weeping
Etymology
Origin of blubbery
Example Sentences
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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.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2024
To maintain their blubbery bulk, Northern elephant seals must spend around seven months at sea each year, gorging on fish and squid.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2023
The Humpty Dance became an MTV staple thanks, in part, to the character of Humpty - voiced by Jacobs as a flamboyant, pimp-like character with a blubbery, stuttering voice.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2021
They often stake out seal breathing holes in the ice, waiting hours for a blubbery meal to break the surface.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 20, 2020
Almost at once the Grievers had shut down completely, their instruments sucked back through their blubbery skin, their lights turned off, their inside machines dead quiet.
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
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