blub

verb

1. To cry, whine or blubber (usually carries a connotation of disapproval).

   “The grotesquely ornamented goats, crazed by the Hamelin piping, stampeded toward him. They piled up, shoving one another from the causeway, screaming with almost human agony as the black mud and the quicksand caught them, screaming till their shrieks blubbed into silence.”

   “Yes. I know where she is. She's blubbing behind the gym. Shall I fetch her out?”

   “Baddle, Thompson-Wright and Wardle had been caned for giving cheek. Thompson-Wright had blubbed, the others hadn't.”

   “‘He . . . he made me cry, sir, and I was too embarrassed to come in blubbing, so I went and hid in the music-room until I felt better.’ This was all terribly unfair on poor old Biffen, whom Adrian rather adored for his snowy hair and perpetual air of benign astonishment. And ‘blubbing’ . . . Blubbing went out with ‘decent’ and ‘ripping’. Mind you, not a bad new language to start up. 1920s schoolboy slang could be due for a revival.”

   “Why does EVERYONE cry at a wedding? Nat thought, stomping her way up the little stone steps to the balcony where the church organs always were. I know people DO blub, she thought, but this is ridiculous.”

2. (obsolete)To swell; to puff out, as with weeping.

noun

1. The act of blubbing.

   “[…] hang me, then, if I've the heart to come again to the old place, till I've had a thorough good blub, and that's the fact of it […]”

adj

1. (attributive, not-comparable)Swollen, puffed, protruding.

   “He's not going out in bluey specs with the sweat rolling off him to baptise blacks, is he? The glasses would take their fancy, flashing. Like to see them sitting round in a ring with blub lips, entranced, listening.”