blub

[ bluhb ]

noun

1. a swelling of fresh plasterwork.

blub

/ blʌb /

verb

1. a slang word for blubber blubber blubber

Word History and Origins

Origin of blub¹

First recorded in 1550–60; variant of blob

Example Sentences

Number Five dredge trembled, with a wet sucking sound, and settled back into the mud, blub—blub—blub.

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Shiny wet, Sonnie-Boy, and blowing their cheeks out like so many blub-blubs.

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And from the fern-covered hollows above other voices replied joyously to her reassuring call, "Blub-blub-blub!"

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All the time the whistle and blub-blub of bullets filled the air, and all the time the death-list grew.

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Christy got very red and looked as if he was going to blub and said that was all.

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Related Words

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• blubber
• boohoo
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• howl
• moan
• mourn
• sob
• wail
• weep