blubber
鲸脂,脂肪,腽肭兽,橡皮泥
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Definitions
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- : Zoology. the fat layer between the skin and muscle of whales and other cetaceans, from which oil is made.
- : excess body fat.
- : an act of weeping noisily and without restraint.
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- : to weep noisily and without restraint: Stop blubbering and tell me what's wrong.
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- : to say, especially incoherently, while weeping: The child seemed to be blubbering something about a lost ring.
- : to contort or disfigure with weeping.
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- : disfigured with blubbering; blubbery: She dried her blubber eyes.
- : fatty; swollen; puffed out: thick, blubber lips; blubber-faced.
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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.