blubber
noun
the fat layer between the skin and muscle of whales and other cetaceans, from which oil is made.
have blubbered
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present perfectof blubber.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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U.S. sportswriters, the most sentimental members of a notoriously softhearted craft, have blubbered over many a death before.
From Time Magazine Archive
I may have blushed and stammered, and I may have blubbered like a milksop, but it was not because I was afraid.
From Dwellers in the Hills by Melville Davisson Post
“I’d have blubbered if I had stayed there another minute,” muttered Sam Hickey.
From The Battleship Boys at Sea Two Apprentices in Uncle Sam's Navy by Frank Gee Patchin
He'd have blubbered like any old Zeuglodon Had Xerophthalmia not come on.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
He is reported to have rescued the dead body of a rabbit from the undergrowth on one occasion, and to have blubbered when he could not bring it back to life.
From The Wonder by J. D. (John Davys) Beresford
