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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blubbery

Blubbery \Blub"ber*y\, a.

  1. Swollen; protuberant.

  2. Like blubber; gelatinous and quivering; as, a blubbery mass.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
blubbery

1791, from blubber (n.) + -y (2).

Wiktionary
blubbery

a. 1 Having the characteristics of blubber. 2 fat or obese. 3 With much blubbering.

WordNet
blubbery

adj. swollen with fat; "blubber cheeks"; "blubber lips"; "a coarse blubbery individual"

Usage examples of "blubbery".

It was a faceremarkably ugly with wide-stretched blubbery lips, pale blue protuberant eyes under almost invisible eyebrows, and a fat, spread-out nose cherry-red at the very tipthat she had seen before.

The wide, blubbery lips, the speading nose with its clear-red tip, the bulging eyes.

The blubbery lips, protruding eyes, waxen cheeks, squashy red-tipped nose.

He focused on the dot, and the dot became a huge, obese aquatic creature, a creature whose blubbery hide, tusks, and skin suited it for this frozen hell, who probably thought the weather a pleasant spring freshet.

Monster honked as he heaved himself out of the water and hauled his blubbery body somewhat awkwardly across the sand.

Gert Wolfram, that blubbery freak-show guy, claimed he discovered stickies.

Standing three paces from Uchitel and the blubbery bulk of the woman, he fired three spaced shots.

They were blubbery and wet and I wanted to scream but I was too afraid and too exhausted from the fight.

Dor regarded Zilch as a great blubbery slob of an animal, but anything that distracted Irene was to some extent worthwhile.

There was an occasional obvious joker, like the short, blubbery, tusked fellow peddling newspapers by the door and the bicephalic singer on the small stage managing some nice harmony on a Cole Porter tune.

Sometimes, however, this lack of caution backfired, because Mercedes would be on all fours hiding behind a lilac bush or some tulips, and she would pop up with her pitching arm going like balls of fire as soon as Harlan entered the invisible but well-marked sphere of her range, and without fail her sudden appearance, plus the accuracy of her pellets, would give the big blubbery man such a start that on several occasions he actually fell down from surprise, and he almost always emerged from these sneak attacks with his heart thundering in a terribly unhealthy manner.

Wiping at her eyes with the backs of her big, blubbery hands, she chuckled a bit more, then addressed the girl in tolerable if thickly accented Ehleeneekos.

Then from the starving cagework city a horde of jerkined dwarfs, my people, with flayers' knives, running, scaling, hacking in green blubbery whalemeat.

He stood there, sweaty and scared, old cobwebs clinging to his naked, blubbery shoulders, his belly cascading over the waistband of his tight bluejeans, determined to not miss a bet, to do all the right things.

Flexible pink snout, bulging nostrils, cauliflower ears, bloodshot saucers for eyes, huge flippers, serpentine tail, scaly skin, and wide blubbery body, it eats only plankton.