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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
blubber .
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Examples
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Eat and Esteem'd by these People; Shell Fish, Lobsters, Crabs, and even sea insects, and what is commonly called blubbers of many kinds, conduce to their support.
Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World James Cook 1753
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Not only fish but almost everything that comes out of the Sea is Eat and Esteem’d by these People; Shell Fish, Lobsters, Crabs, and even sea insects, and what is commonly called blubbers of many kinds, conduce to their support.
Captain Cook's Journal during his first voyage round the world 1767
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How it bubbles and 'blubbers' up, like thick hasty-pudding, with a dignified slowness that is inimitable.
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 Various 1840
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Why is it when Ed Muskie "cried" in 1972 it showed him as weak and cost him his candidacy, but when Weeper of the House Boehner blubbers on camera he's an honest, hard-working guy who's trying to choke back his emotions?
Ian Gurvitz: 20 Post-Midterm Questions Ian Gurvitz 2010
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Boehner blubbers twice in front of Lesley Stahl during the interview.
John Boehner's crying game Jonathan Capehart 2010
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Why is it when Ed Muskie "cried" in 1972 it showed him as weak and cost him his candidacy, but when Weeper of the House Boehner blubbers on camera he's an honest, hard-working guy who's trying to choke back his emotions?
Ian Gurvitz: 20 Post-Midterm Questions Ian Gurvitz 2010
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Though there be no more God if ever there was One he prays blubbers wails he tells his father he's sorry he tells his father he always loved him but this time he doesn't say It ain't my fault Daddy! because that would be a lie, wouldn't it, and it doesn't take Billy to tell him so.
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Why is it when Ed Muskie "cried" in 1972 it showed him as weak and cost him his candidacy, but when Weeper of the House Boehner blubbers on camera he's an honest, hard-working guy who's trying to choke back his emotions?
Ian Gurvitz: 20 Post-Midterm Questions Ian Gurvitz 2010
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Boehner blubbers twice in front of Lesley Stahl during the interview.
Jonathan Capehart: John Boehner's crying game Jonathan Capehart 2010
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Taj blubbers to us, "Seeing my husband just ... just ..., it really helped me."
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