Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who blubbers.

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  • noun someone who sniffles and weeps with loud sobs

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Examples

  • Next to a wife abuser, the most successful car salesman in the world is a groveling blubberer in a confessional booth.

    John Shore: Why Pastors Struggle With Confronting Domestic Violence John Shore 2011

  • Next to a wife abuser, the most successful car salesman in the world is a groveling blubberer in a confessional booth.

    John Shore: Why Pastors Struggle With Confronting Domestic Violence John Shore 2011

  • An unabashed blubberer, a melancholy Williams was immediately misty-eyed in the moments following Syracuse's 81-78 triumph over the valiant Jayhawks, who never led but nearly overcame an 18-point deficit.

    USATODAY.com - Kansas faithful wait on Williams' future 2003

  • Bababalouk, supposing us to be still in the palace, will guard its avenues for his own sake; and we shall soon find, without the counsels of that blubberer

    The History of the Caliph Vathek 2004

  • There was The Problem to think of; there was always The Problem to think of, and this poor blubberer might unexpectedly supply a clue.

    Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973

  • Spit at this dumb one, this blubberer, who has forgotten himself in a new sleep. '

    Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath Ben Hecht 1929

  • This blubberer who had followed me home in the snow, yes this insufferable melancholiac who rained his tears into my Heaven -- Mallare would have killed him.

    Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath Ben Hecht 1929

  • An accomplished penitent, this blubberer, able to transform himself from a Sense of Homicidal Guilt into a mere feeling of

    Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath Ben Hecht 1929

  • Tschaikowsky is correctly put down as a highly talented but essentially shallow fellow -- a blubberer in the regalia of a philosopher.

    A Book of Prefaces 1918

  • Iskender felt cruelly defrauded; it was with difficulty that he suppressed a cry of rage; for had he so much as guessed that such a thing was hid beneath the cloak of the blubberer, he would long ago have had it for his own.

    The Valley of the Kings Marmaduke William Pickthall 1905

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