Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who blubbers.
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- noun someone who sniffles and weeps with loud sobs
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Examples
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Next to a wife abuser, the most successful car salesman in the world is a groveling blubberer in a confessional booth.
John Shore: Why Pastors Struggle With Confronting Domestic Violence John Shore 2011
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Next to a wife abuser, the most successful car salesman in the world is a groveling blubberer in a confessional booth.
John Shore: Why Pastors Struggle With Confronting Domestic Violence John Shore 2011
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An unabashed blubberer, a melancholy Williams was immediately misty-eyed in the moments following Syracuse's 81-78 triumph over the valiant Jayhawks, who never led but nearly overcame an 18-point deficit.
USATODAY.com - Kansas faithful wait on Williams' future 2003
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Bababalouk, supposing us to be still in the palace, will guard its avenues for his own sake; and we shall soon find, without the counsels of that blubberer
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There was The Problem to think of; there was always The Problem to think of, and this poor blubberer might unexpectedly supply a clue.
Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973
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Spit at this dumb one, this blubberer, who has forgotten himself in a new sleep. '
Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath Ben Hecht 1929
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This blubberer who had followed me home in the snow, yes this insufferable melancholiac who rained his tears into my Heaven -- Mallare would have killed him.
Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath Ben Hecht 1929
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An accomplished penitent, this blubberer, able to transform himself from a Sense of Homicidal Guilt into a mere feeling of
Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath Ben Hecht 1929
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Tschaikowsky is correctly put down as a highly talented but essentially shallow fellow -- a blubberer in the regalia of a philosopher.
A Book of Prefaces 1918
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Iskender felt cruelly defrauded; it was with difficulty that he suppressed a cry of rage; for had he so much as guessed that such a thing was hid beneath the cloak of the blubberer, he would long ago have had it for his own.
The Valley of the Kings Marmaduke William Pickthall 1905
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