Definition of Blubbing

1. Verb. (present participle of blub) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Blubbing

1. blub [v] - See also: blub

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blubbing

blubbed
blubber
blubber finger
blubber out
blubbered
blubberer
blubberers
blubberfest
blubbering
blubberingly
blubberless
blubberlike
blubberous
blubbers
blubbery
blubbing (current term)
blubbo
blubbos
blubs
blucher
bluchers
blude
bludes
bludged
bludgeon
bludgeoned
bludgeoner
bludgeoners
bludgeoning

Literary usage of Blubbing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The English Illustrated Magazine (1895)
"He had shut up blubbing by that time ; I suppose the ' toko ' had stopped stinging a bit, but when they said he must give up the gloves he started again ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"N. 18B,a covenant by the defendant, a licensee under a patent, that he would not, during the license, make or sell any blubbing machines unless the ..."

3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"There is something rash—something intensely spoony, in fact, in the reviewer's blubbing on Hume, and exhibiting him in print In the House of Commons, ..."

4. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1900)
"One of our men, a young fellow from Dera Ismail, jumped on the wall to slang 'em back, and jumped down, blubbing like a child. He'd been hit smack in the ..."

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