different between slubber vs blubber

English

Etymology

Compare Danish slubbre (“to swallow, to sup up”), and English slabber.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sl?b?(?)/
• Rhymes: -?b?(?)

Verb

slubber (third-person singular simple present slubbers, present participle slubbering, simple past and past participle slubbered)

1. To do hastily, imperfectly, or sloppily.
2. To daub; to stain; to cover carelessly.
3. To slobber.

Noun

slubber (plural slubbers)

1. A person who, or a machine which, slubs.

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)

Anagrams

• burbles, lubbers, rebulbs, rubbles

English

Alternative forms

• blobber (dated)

Etymology

See blobber, blob, bleb.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?bl?b?/
• Rhymes: -?b?(r)

Noun

blubber (countable and uncountable, plural blubbers)

1. A fatty layer of adipose tissue found immediately beneath the epidermis.
2. Fatty tissue.

   Synonym: adipose tissue

3. The thick coat of fat worn by many Arctic animals, such as sea lions, and Antarctic animals, such as penguins; used to insulate warmth in the animal's body.
4. (obsolete) A bubble.

Derived terms

• sea-blubber

Translations

Verb

blubber (third-person singular simple present blubbers, present participle blubbering, simple past and past participle blubbered)

1. To make noises or broken words while crying.
   • 1918, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, The Outside of the House

     They knew that the wall stood and the house was saved, and old Sam was blubbering over old Captain Joe Dickson lying spent almost to death on the veranda
2. (archaic, transitive) To swell or disfigure (the face) with weeping; to wet with tears.
   • 1718, Matthew Prior, A Better Answer

     Dear Cloe, how blubbered is that pretty face!

   • [S]he hastily retired, taking with her her little girl, whose eyes were all over blubbered at the melancholy news she heard of Jones, who used to call her his little wife, and not only gave her many playthings, but spent whole hours in playing with her himself.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:weep

Derived terms

• beblubber
• blubbery

Translations

Anagrams

• bubbler

German

Pronunciation

Verb

blubber

1. inflection of blubbern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative