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  • verb Present participle of blub.

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Examples

  • The story begins with a different kind of water-- Jill's hot, humiliating tears, as she sits "blubbing" behind the gym where she has sought refuge from Them, the school bullies.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Donna Farley 2007

  • The story begins with a different kind of water-- Jill's hot, humiliating tears, as she sits "blubbing" behind the gym where she has sought refuge from Them, the school bullies.

    Water and Spirit Donna Farley 2007

  • It's all very well to imagine newly single, sad-faced Adele blubbing alone to ballads, but single life is just as much a riot of undignified lonely nights on dancefloors.

    This week's new singles 2011

  • And while on the subject of handkerchiefs, Brodie Ross's Roderigo is the best ever – a hilarious wimp, blubbing into his soggy hankie, insisting on repeated hugs from Iago.

    Othello; Grief; St Matthew Passion – review 2011

  • I need to dunk my head in a bucket to reabsorb the liquids I lost blubbing my face off.

    Losing their religion 2010

  • Morlock is rudely awakened by a stone monster, which he dispatches thanks to blubbing and skills.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Blue Tyson 2010

  • Oh, and an ending that will have you blubbing into your Cinzano Rosso.

    Phil Hogan's Christmas TV highlights 2011

  • It's all very well to imagine newly single, sad-faced Adele blubbing alone to ballads, but single life is just as much a riot of undignified lonely nights on dancefloors.

    This week's new singles 2011

  • It makes you wonder if Ascot is ready for the sight of a 65-year-old man in a morning suit, blubbing like a lovesick teenager in front of the Queen.

    Richard Hannon weeps tears of joy after Paco Boy's Lockinge romp Greg Wood at Newbury 2010

  • The actor, 41, on Bob Dylan, blubbing and playing to small audiences

    This much I know: Toby Stephens 2010

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