Word Meanings - BLUBBERING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of weeping noisily. He spake well save that his blubbering interrupted him. Winthrop.

Related words: (words related to BLUBBERING)

• INTERRUPTION
  1. The act of interrupting, or breaking in upon. 2. The state of being interrupted; a breach or break, caused by the abrupt intervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition. Sir M. Hale. Lest the interruption of time cause you to
• NOISILY
  In a noisy manner.
• INTERRUPT
  1. To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a temporary cessation of; as, to interrupt the remarks speaking. Do not interrupt me in my course.
• BLUBBERY
  1. Swollen; protuberant. 2. Like blubber; gelatinous and quivering; as, a blubbery mass.
• INTERRUPTED
  Irregular; -- said of any arrangement whose symmetry is destroyed by local causes, as when leaflets are interposed among the leaves in a pinnate leaf. (more info) 1. Broken; intermitted; suddenly stopped.
• BLUBBERED
  Swollen; turgid; as, a blubbered lip. Spenser.
• WEEPING TREE
  Any tree having pendulous branches. A tree from which honeydew or other liquid secretions of insects drip in considerable quantities, esp. one infested by the larvæ of any species of the genus Ptylus, allied to the cuckoo spits, which in tropical
• BLUBBERING
  The act of weeping noisily. He spake well save that his blubbering interrupted him. Winthrop.
• INTERRUPTIVE
  Tending to interrupt; interrupting. "Interruptive forces." H. Bushnell. -- In`ter*rupt"ive*ly, adv.
• WEEPER
  The capuchin. See Capuchin, 3 . (more info) 1. One who weeps; esp., one who sheds tears. 2. A white band or border worn on the sleeve as a badge of mourning. Goldsmith.
• WEEPING
  1. Grieving; lamenting; shedding tears. "Weeping eyes." I. Watts. 2. Discharging water, or other liquid, in drops or very slowly; surcharged with water. "Weeping grounds." Mortimer. 3. Having slender, pendent branches; -- said of trees; as, weeping
• INTERRUPTER
  A device for opening and closing an electrical circuit; a vibrating spring or tuning fork, arranged to make and break a circuit at rapidly recurring intervals, by the action of the current itself. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, interrupts.
• INTERRUPTEDLY
  With breaks or interruptions; discontinuously. Interruptedly pinnate , pinnate with small leaflets intermixed with large ones. Gray.
• WEEPFUL
  Full of weeping or lamentation; grieving. Wyclif.
• WEEP
  1. To lament; to bewail; to bemoan. "I weep bitterly the dead." A. S. Hardy. We wandering go Through dreary wastes, and weep each other's woe. Pope. 2. To shed, or pour forth, as tears; to shed drop by drop, as if tears; as, to weep tears of joy.
• BLUBBER
  A large sea nettle or medusa. (more info) 1. A bubble. At his mouth a blubber stood of foam. Henryson. 2. The fat of whales and other large sea animals from which oil is obtained. It lies immediately under the skin and over the muscular flesh.
• SPAKENET
  A net for catching crabs. Halliwell.
• WEEPINGLY
  In a weeping manner.
• WEEPING-RIPE
  Ripe for weeping; ready to weep. Shak.
• SPAKE
  imp. of Speak.
• ENSWEEP
  To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. Thomson.
• PEASWEEP
  The pewit, or lapwing. The greenfinch.
• SWEEPAGE
  The crop of hay got in a meadow.
• FORWEEP
  To weep much.
• BEBLUBBER
  To make swollen and disfigured or sullied by weeping; as, her eyes or cheeks were beblubbered.
• SWEEPING
  Cleaning off surfaces, or cleaning away dust, dirt, or litter, as a broom does; moving with swiftness and force; carrying everything before it; including in its scope many persons or things; as, a sweeping flood; a sweeping majority; a sweeping
• SWEEP-SAW
  A bow-saw.
• SWEEPY
  Moving with a sweeping motion. The branches bend before their sweepy away. Dryden.
• SWEEPWASHER
  One who extracts the residuum of precious metals from the sweepings, potsherds, etc., of refineries of gold and silver, or places where these metals are used.