| NOUN | substance | blubber | an insulating layer of fat under the skin of whales and other large marine mammals |
|---|---|---|---|
| attribute | blubber, fatness, fat, avoirdupois | excess bodily weight | |
| VERB | body | blubber, snivel, sniffle, blub, snuffle | cry or whine with snuffling |
| communication | blubber, blubber out | utter while crying |
| Sounds | blah'ber | |
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| Rhymes | absorber ... weber / Weber: 72 rhymes with ber... | |
| Meaning | An insulating layer of fat under the skin of whales and other large marine mammals; used as a source of oil. | |
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| Broader | animal oil | Any oil obtained from animal substances |
| Spanish | grasa de ballena | |
| Catalan | greix de balena | |
| Meaning | excess bodily weight. | |
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| Synonyms | fatness, fat, avoirdupois | |
| Narrower | abdominousness, paunchiness | The bodily property of a protruding belly |
| adiposity, adiposeness, fattiness | Having the property of containing fat | |
| fleshiness, obesity, corpulency | More than average fatness | |
| greasiness, oiliness, oleaginousness | Consisting of or covered with oil | |
| steatopygia | An extreme accumulation of fat on the buttocks | |
| Broader | bodily property | An attribute of the body |
| Opposite | leanness, thinness, spareness | The property of having little body fat |
| Spanish | adiposidad, corpulencia, gordura, grasa | |
| Adjectives | blubbery | swollen with fat |
| Meaning | cry or whine with snuffling. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
| Model | Sam and Sue blubber | |
| Synonyms | snivel, sniffle, blub, snuffle | |
| Broader | cry, weep | shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain |
| Spanish | gimotear, llorar, lloriquear, resollar, sollozar | |
| Catalan | ploriquejar | |
| Nouns | blubberer | someone who sniffles and weeps with loud sobs |
| Meaning | Utter while crying. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE | |
| Synonym | blubber out | |
| Broader | talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise | Express in speech |
| Spanish | lloriquear | |
| Catalan | parlar en plors, plorinyar, somicar | |
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