Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Resembling blubber; fat, as a cetacean.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Swollen; protuberant.
  • adjective Like blubber; gelatinous and quivering.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having the characteristics of blubber.
  • adjective Fat or obese.
  • adjective With much blubbering.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective swollen with fat

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Examples

  • One could call Chris "blubbery," but if he is, it clearly hasn't hampered him.

    East Side Boxing 2009

  • Limbaugh is a blubbery, drug-addicted hypocrite — the perfect face of the Republican Party. zooman Says:

    Matthew Yglesias » John McCain, Dittohead 2009

  • But in reality, what competition did a stick-thin twelve year old and a blubbery fourteen year old have for him?

    Court Out « A Fly in Amber 2010

  • You are a pathetic little person who seeks nothing but attention and I enjoy poking your blubbery pale belly.

    Think Progress » Pentagon Shooter Was Right-Wing, Anti-Government Terrorist 2010

  • What gives these epidermal exhibitionists the right to force everyone else in the Republic to eyeball their blubbery thighs and ratty chest hair?

    Hey, Buddy, Keep Your Shirt On! Joe Queenan 2011

  • Paramore shook up their pop-metal repertoire last year with The Only Exception, a blubbery ballad about wuv.

    Glee is back but which song will be the new Don't Stop Believing? 2011

  • She was, to put it politely, a big girl: big-boned and blubbery, with long, mousy brown hair that hung like curtains in front of her face.

    The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011

  • The blubbery shell would fall away to the floor, like a greasy banana peel, and the real Brendan Yin would be looking back at him, sticky, bewildered, reborn.

    InfiniDate Benjamin Matvey 2011

  • Each of them seemed panicked and blubbery, mumbling to themselves in French.

    Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011

  • She was, to put it politely, a big girl: big-boned and blubbery, with long, mousy brown hair that hung like curtains in front of her face.

    The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011

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  • "Then from the starving cagework city a horde of jerkined dwarfs, my people, with flayers’ knives, running, scaling, hacking in green blubbery whalemeat.” --Ulysses

    January 7, 2013