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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of blub.

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Examples

  • Would be interested to know though how many times she has 'blubbed' in the chamber though over the past ten years or so as I can only recall her voice breaking when discussing a large number of farmer suicides in her constituancy.

    Kirsty gets gloopy blue 2008

  • "blubbed" they might afterwards have taken him to their bosoms in understanding and inarticulate sympathy.

    The Dark House 1922

  • She then blubbed so much that everyone changed from “no” to “yes”.

    SLACKERJACK – Double Wires 2009

  • When the word was given the brief day was almost spent, and it was slow work and tedious, rolling the big bales forward foot by foot The bullets of the Sunlanders blub-blubbed and thudded against them, but could not go through, and the men howled their delight But the dark was at hand, and Tyee, secure of success, called the bales back to the trenches.

    THE SUNLANDERS 2010

  • "Catastrophe - I am so disappointed," blubbed Jovanovic, who will forever remember his first Liverpool goal as the catalyst for one of the most humiliating defeats in the club's history.

    Honourable loser schtick; and Ranieri 2010

  • "Under these circumstances we cannot say we are going to Bosnia to win," blubbed Blanc as he nervously checked to see whether his players had suddenly decided to boycott the match or the kit had spontaneously combusted.

    It Could Always Be Worse, and the France Football Team 2010

  • "I've been through a lot in the last four years and I'm so glad it has culminated in this way," he blubbed.

    World Cup 2010: Landon Donovan secures top spot as USA beat Algeria Paul Wilson at the Loftus Versfeld Stadium 2010

  • I nodded modestly, and remarked that the last time I'd heard it drunk had been by Liprandi's Russian staff after Balaclava, and d'you know, Custer absolutely blubbed on the spot.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • Stopping by a pack of youths on a corner, I was as surprised as anyone to hear the two words that blubbed out of my mouth; “Stone-Heart.”

    The Ebsen Reaction 2010

  • I cried too, "said ittymay, while ihussain admitted:" I had to walk away from the screen and couldn't talk in case I blubbed in front of colleagues!

    The readers' room: what you thought of G2 this week 2010

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