Meaning of "blubber" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BLUBBER

Perhaps from Low German blubbern to bubble, of imitative origin.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF BLUBBER

blubber  [ˈblʌbə]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BLUBBER

Blubber is a verb and can also act as a noun and an adjective.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb blubber in English.

WHAT DOES BLUBBER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Blubber

Blubber is a thick layer of vascularized adipose tissue found under the skin of all cetaceans, pinnipeds and sirenians.

Definition of blubber in the English dictionary

The first definition of blubber in the dictionary is to sob without restraint. Other definition of blubber is to utter while sobbing. Blubber is also to make wet and swollen or disfigured by crying.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO BLUBBER

PRESENT

Present

I blubber

you blubber

he/she/it blubbers

we blubber

you blubber

they blubber

Present continuous

I am blubbering

you are blubbering

he/she/it is blubbering

we are blubbering

you are blubbering

they are blubbering

Present perfect

I have blubbered

you have blubbered

he/she/it has blubbered

we have blubbered

you have blubbered

they have blubbered

Present perfect continuous

I have been blubbering

you have been blubbering

he/she/it has been blubbering

we have been blubbering

you have been blubbering

they have been blubbering

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I blubbered

you blubbered

he/she/it blubbered

we blubbered

you blubbered

they blubbered

Past continuous

I was blubbering

you were blubbering

he/she/it was blubbering

we were blubbering

you were blubbering

they were blubbering

Past perfect

I had blubbered

you had blubbered

he/she/it had blubbered

we had blubbered

you had blubbered

they had blubbered

Past perfect continuous

I had been blubbering

you had been blubbering

he/she/it had been blubbering

we had been blubbering

you had been blubbering

they had been blubbering

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will blubber

you will blubber

he/she/it will blubber

we will blubber

you will blubber

they will blubber

Future continuous

I will be blubbering

you will be blubbering

he/she/it will be blubbering

we will be blubbering

you will be blubbering

they will be blubbering

Future perfect

I will have blubbered

you will have blubbered

he/she/it will have blubbered

we will have blubbered

you will have blubbered

they will have blubbered

Future perfect continuous

I will have been blubbering

you will have been blubbering

he/she/it will have been blubbering

we will have been blubbering

you will have been blubbering

they will have been blubbering

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would blubber

you would blubber

he/she/it would blubber

we would blubber

you would blubber

they would blubber

Conditional continuous

I would be blubbering

you would be blubbering

he/she/it would be blubbering

we would be blubbering

you would be blubbering

they would be blubbering

Conditional perfect

I would have blubber

you would have blubber

he/she/it would have blubber

we would have blubber

you would have blubber

they would have blubber

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been blubbering

you would have been blubbering

he/she/it would have been blubbering

we would have been blubbering

you would have been blubbering

they would have been blubbering

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you blubber
we let´s blubber
you blubber

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to blubber

Past participle

blubbered

Present Participle

blubbering

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «BLUBBER»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «blubber» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of blubber

bawl · fat · fatty tissue · greet · mewl · snivel · sob · wail · weep · whimper · yowl

TRANSLATION OF BLUBBER

Find out the translation of blubber to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of blubber from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «blubber» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 脂
• Translator English - Spanish: grasa
• English: blubber
• Translator English - Hindi: रोना
• Translator English - Arabic: جلد
• Translator English - Russian: ворвани
• Translator English - Portuguese: gordura
• Translator English - Bengali: অশ্রুপাত
• Translator English - French: chialer
• Translator English - Malay: Blubber
• Translator English - German: Speck
• Translator English - Japanese: 脂身
• Translator English - Korean: 지방이
• Translator English - Javanese: Blubber
• Translator English - Vietnamese: môi trề
• Translator English - Tamil: கதறி அழுதல்
• Translator English - Marathi: ब्लबबर
• Translator English - Turkish: balina yağı
• Translator English - Italian: grasso di balena
• Translator English - Polish: tran
• Translator English - Ukrainian: ворвані
• Translator English - Romanian: grăsimea
• Translator English - Greek: λίπος
• Translator English - Afrikaans: spek
• Translator English - Swedish: späck
• Translator English - Norwegian: spekk

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BLUBBER»

Discover the use of blubber in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to blubber and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Blubber

Blubber is a good name for her, the note from Wendy says about Linda.

Judy Blume, 2012

Blubber

Text by Beth Coleman.

Ellen Gallagher, Gagosian Gallery, 2001

Blubber

“Blubber is a thick layer of fat that lies under the skin and over the muscles of whales,” Linda said. “And uh . . . it protects them and keeps them warm even in cold water. Blubber is very important. Removing the blubber from a whale is a job  ...

Judy Blume, 2014

Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William ...

Bluejackets in the Blubber Room explores key events in US maritime history from the 1820s to the end of the Civil War through the biography of the sailing ship William Badger.

‎2013

(More Than) 50 Ways to Lose Your Blubber

Lists 50 ways to lose fat with exercise, and another 50 with diet. Describes them in detail, gives additional helpful hints for losing fat & improving overall physical condition

Dave Yarnell, 2009

Hormones and Blubber: An Endocrinological Approach for ...

Toward these ends and important for the validation of this approach, new procedures were developed to verify reproductive state in dead female specimens in which reproductive tract was at hand (Chapter 1).

Nicholas M. Kellar, 2008

Teaching Banned Books: 12 Guides for Young Readers

JUDY. BLUME. AGES 10-12 I will act the same as always except I'll just ignore Wendy. That will teach her a lesson about threatening people. —Jill Brenner, age 10, in Blubber At 10 years old everyone needs a best friend, and most kids want ...

Pat Scales, 2001

Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds

Blubber teaches a lesson to all those children who take pleasure in tormenting an easy victim, by showing them that today's tormentor can easily become tomorrow's tormented. The novel opens in a fifth-grade classroom as students take turns ...

Dawn B. Sova, 2006

Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals

Although it is not strictly present in polar bears (Ursus maritimus) or sea otters ( Enhydra lutris), all cetaceans, sirenians and pinnipeds have blubber and it may comprise up to 50% of the body mass of some species at certain life stages.

William F. Perrin, Bernd Wursig, J. G.M. Thewissen, 2009

The Antarctic Dictionary: A Complete Guide to Antarctic English

[NOED records blubber-lamp a lamp which burns blubber oil, in an arctic usage of1856.] A lamp fuelled by blubber or blubber oil. 22 Nov 1908 Mawson, Douglas in Jacka, Fred and Jacka, Eleanor, eds (1991) Mawson's antarctic diaries Allen ...

Bernadette Hince, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BLUBBER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term blubber is used in the context of the following news items.

For sea lions, a feast of salmon on the Columbia

Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, sea lions were slaughtered for their hides, oil-rich blubber and even their genitals, which ... «High Country News, Jul 15»

Jason Whitlock is a Williams Sisters Truther

She's chosen to smother some of it in an unsightly layer of thick, muscled blubber, a byproduct of her unwillingness to commit to a training ... «Awful Announcing, Jul 15»

July Book Buzz: "Mighty Whale Tales"

The whalers prized the bowheads for their thick blubber and elongated baleen, rows of whalebone in their mouths. Toozak, an Eskimo boy, ... «The Missourian, Jul 15»

Karen Igho shares a loving letter to her unborn child

I'm emotional so I tell you it's okay to blubber once and a while like your Mom. But learn to develop what your father has; an excellent sense of ... «Citifmonline, Jul 15»

Volunteers key in marine rescues

As part of the routine necropsy conducted on the animals that don't make it, Erbe has stood inside a whale, cutting out cubes of blubber the size ... «Tribune-Review, Jul 15»

Shark feast caught on camera

The great white sharks were shown often turning on their backs to get a better bite out of the whale's blubber. While such a scenario would take ... «Stuff.co.nz, Jul 15»

See Karen Igho's Huge Baby Bump And Emotional Letter To Her …

I'm emotional so I tell you it's okay to blubber once and a while like your Mom. But learn to develop what your father has; an excellent sense of ... «360Nobs.com, Jul 15»

Close-up footage shows sharks feasting on whale carcass off Coffs …

The great white sharks were shown often turning on their backs to get a better bite out of the whale's blubber. At least three great white sharks ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»

Belfast Zoo get summer off to a splashing start as they welcome sea …

The mother provides milk which is high in fat and helps the pup grow the important layer of blubber which allows the sea lion to keep warm. «Belfast Telegraph, Jul 15»

Before Moby-Dick, There Was "Two Years Before the Mast"

“Blubber is blubber you know; tho' you may get oil out of it, the poetry runs as hard as sap from a frozen maple tree....Yet I mean to give the truth of the thing, spite ... «Smithsonian, Jul 15»