blubbering Definition

blubber
noun

1. The fat of sea animals such as the whale.
2. colloq
Excessive body fat; flab.
3. colloq
A bout of weeping or blubbering.

verb blubbered, blubbering

derog:
colloq:
intr
1. To weep, especially noisily or unrestrainedly.
2. To say or try to say (words, etc) while weeping.
3. To make (the face, eyes, etc) swollen, red, unattractive, etc with weeping.

Derivative: blubbering
noun

Derivative: blubbery
adj

Etymology: 17c in noun sense 1;14c as blober, meaning ‘foam or bubbles on the surface of the sea' and ‘to bubble up': imitating the sound.