blubber

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “Here Bliſil ſighed bitterly; upon vvhich VVeſtern, vvhoſe Eyes vvere full of Tears at the praiſe of Sophia, blubbered out, 'Don't be Chicken-hearted, for ſhat ha her, d—n me, ſhat ha her, if ſhe vvas tvventy Times as good.'”

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

   “Her ſvvollen eyes vvere much diſfigured, / And her faire face vvith teares vvas fovvly blubbered.”

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

   “Looke on this tree, vvhich blubbereth Amber gum / vvhich ſeemes to ſpeak to thee, though it be dumb, / VVhich being ſenceles blocks, as thou do'ſt ſee, / VVeepe at my vvoes, that thou might'ſt pitty mee: […]”

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

   “What weepe? fye for ſhame, and blubber? for manhods ſake, / Neuer lette your foe ſo muche pleaſure of you take.”

5. fiil To bubble or bubble up; also, to make a bubbling sound like water boiling.
6. isim A fatty layer of adipose tissue found immediately beneath the epidermis of whales and other cetaceans (infraorder Cetacea).

   “Though their [the hyena whale or pilot whale's] blubber is very thin, some of these whales will yield you upwards of thirty gallons of oil.”

7. isim A fatty layer of adipose tissue found in other animals which keeps them warm, especially Arctic animals such as sea lions and Antarctic animals such as penguins.
8. isim A person's fat tissue, usually when regarded as excessive and unsightly.

   “Are you numbered among the employed yet? I read the unemployment figures and I shudder. You do not have any stored-up blubber to live on.”

9. isim A jellyfish (subphylum Medusozoa).

   “You know, Jacob, that the North Seas are full of these animals—you cannot imagine the quantity of them; the sailors call them blubbers, because they are composed of a sort of transparent jelly, but the real name I am told is Medusæ, that is, the learned name.”

10. isim An act of crying or weeping freely and noisily.

    “Fassmann gives dolorous clippings from the Leyden Gazette, all in a blubber of tears, according to the then fashion, but full of impertinent curiosity withal.”

11. isim A bubble.
12. isim One who blubs (“cries or weeps freely and noisily”); a blubberer.

    “[T]hree of the boys, of whom Mr. Hector was sometimes one, used to come in the morning as his humble attendants, and carry him [Johnson] to school. […] The purfly, sand-blind lubber and blubber, with his open mouth, and face of bruised honeycomb; yet already dominant, imperial, irresistible!”

13. sıfat Especially of lips: protruding, swollen.

    “And what like is the Nubian slave, who comes ambassador on such an errand from the Soldan? […] with black skin, a head curled like a ram's, a flat nose, and blubber lips—ha, worthy Sir Henry?”