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blubber

verb as in cry noisily

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noun as in animal or human fat

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They were hunted incessantly for their meat and blubber, which could be turned into oil and used in a variety of industrial products like lamps.

The settlers observed the Inuit hunting seals and then heating their homes by burning blubber, eating the meat—surviving.

A sea otter’s secret to staying warm isn’t in thick stores of blubber.

Sea otters are also the smallest marine mammals, which means they have a larger surface area relative to their body size through which to lose heat, and they lack the insulating blubber found in their more massive relatives.

Sea otters’ secret to staying warm isn’t in thick stores of blubber.

Meanwhile, Democratic leaders blubber about racism while cynically scheming for a permanent demographic majority.

Scott does not come off as a conventionally conceived gigglebox made of blubber.

Besides a few crumbs, it contained a small lump of narwhal blubber and a little packet.

Then he would burst rudely into my solitude and while I sopped cold water over his injured members, he would blubber.

Fat Boy's two hundred and eighty-odd pounds were drooped over his chair like the blubber of an exhausted, beach-stranded whale.

The faithful swallow "squid," and become a mass of blubber; the sceptics feed on solid flesh, and are thin as tigers.

Robinson began to blubber the moment George took his hand, spite of the money lost.

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On this page you'll find 42 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to blubber, such as: bawl, cry, sob, wail, weep, and blub.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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