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Blub

verb
1.
Cry or whine with snuffling.  Synonyms: blubber, sniffle, snivel, snuffle.






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"Blub" Quotes from Famous Books



... "A blub-blub is a fat little fish who takes big long gulps deep down in the ocean and then comes to the top o' the water, and, when he sees anybody watching him, puffs out his cheeks ...
— Sonnie-Boy's People • James B. Connolly

... he's lost," Alice said, making the ugly face that means you are going to blub in ...
— New Treasure Seekers - or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune • E. (Edith) Nesbit

... "Well, it's nothing to blub about," said Jimmy, answering the sniffs that had served her in this speech for commas and full-stops; ...
— The Enchanted Castle • E. Nesbit

... and pale, moon-faced, with grey eyes, short arms, thick hands and feet, smooth, corpulent and phlegmatic body. When she is in watery signs, the native has freckles on the face, or, says Lilly, 'he or she is blub-cheeked, not a handsome body, but a muddling creature.' Unless the moon is very well aspected, she ever signifies an ordinary vulgar person. She signifies sailors (not as Mars does, the fighting-men of war-ships, but nautical folk generally) and ...
— Myths and Marvels of Astronomy • Richard A. Proctor



Words linked to "Blub" :   weep, snivel, cry



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