Definition of "blubber" in English

verb

1. Often followed by out: to cry out (words) while sobbing.

2. To wet (one's eyes or face) by crying; to beweep; also, to cause (one's face) to disfigure or swell through crying.

3. Often followed by forth: to let (one's tears) flow freely.

4. To cry or weep freely and noisily; to sob.

5. To bubble or bubble up; also, to make a bubbling sound like water boiling.

noun

1. (uncountable, countable) A fatty layer of adipose tissue found immediately beneath the epidermis of whales and other cetaceans (infraorder Cetacea).

2. (countable, chiefly derogatory) An act of crying or weeping freely and noisily.

3. (countable, obsolete) A bubble.

noun

1. One who blubs (“cries or weeps freely and noisily”); a blubberer.

adjective

1. (archaic) Especially of lips: protruding, swollen.