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blubber

1. a thick insulating layer of fatty tissue below the skin of aquatic mammals such as the whale: used by man as a source of oil
2. Austral an informal name for jellyfish
Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

blubber

[′bləb·ər]
(invertebrate zoology)
A large sea nettle or medusa.
(vertebrate zoology)
A thick insulating layer of fat beneath the skin of whales and other marine mammals.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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By blubbering--he hates blubbering even worse than whining--I got him to hang up without pinning me down.
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It was a month of emotional trauma and blubbering over tear-stained, four-page letters sent home bemoaning the horrors of summer camp.
Now turn the hi-jet in, usually only a fraction of a turn, until the exhaust tone loses its blubbering sound and levels out.
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