different between butterball vs blubbo

English

Etymology

butter +? ball

Pronunciation

Noun

butterball (plural butterballs)

1. A round lump of a coagulated fat used in cooking such as butter, margarine, or a spread
2. (derogatory) An overweight person.
   • 1988, Vicki Lansky, Fat-Proofing your Children – so that they Never Become Diet-Addicted Adults, page 62

     "What if your baby is a butterball? Does Fat-Proofing mean you should put your infant on diet?."

3. A small North American duck, the bufflehead, Bucephala albeola
   • 1917, in the Hunter-Trader-Trapper, volume 34, page 37:

     The skipper had his eye on a bunch of butterballs feeding not far from the boat. In fact there were ducks all around — though he did not tell me so.

4. (Canada, US) A turkey.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:fat person

English

Etymology

blubber +? -o

Pronunciation

Noun

blubbo (plural blubbos)

1. (slang, derogatory) An overweight or obese person.
   • 1985, Dee Matthews, Allan Zullo, Bruce M. Nash, The you can do it! kids diet

     Bob, fifteen, lost 15 pounds and was 25 pounds from his goal: I've been called names like "fatso" and "blubbo" and that gets me real mad.

   • 1989, Marguerite Kelly, Katy Kelly, The mother's almanac II, Volume 2

     You study it together once a week to help him see the pitfalls, but don't get mad when he succumbs to what our flock lovingly calls a "blubbo attack." It's bound to happen.

   • 1997, David Cody Weiss, Bobbi J. G. Weiss, Good switch, bad switch, page 109

     "Watch it, blubbo!" shot Salem.

   • 2004, Fred Grandinetti, Popeye: an illustrated cultural history, page 308

     POPEYE I'm rights behind ya, blubbo!

Synonyms

• fatass
• fatso
• butterball
• fatty
• chunker
• obeast
• fatfuck

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