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blubbed

/blʌbd/

blubbed is the simple past and past participle of blub.

Meaning of blub

Verb

blub (third-person singular simple present blubs, present participle blubbing, simple past and past participle blubbed)

  1. To cry, whine or blubber (usually carries a connotation of disapproval).
    • The grotesquely ornamented goats, crazed by the Hamelin piping, stampeded toward him. They piled up, shoving one another from the causeway, screaming with almost human agony as the black mud and the quicksand caught them, screaming till their shrieks blubbed into silence.1935 November, Arthur Leo Zagat, chapter IV, in Dime Mystery Magazine
  2. (obsolete) To swell; to puff out, as with weeping.

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Words that rhyme with blubbed

Questions about blubbed

What is blubbed the simple past and past participle of?
Blubbed is the simple past and past participle of blub.
How do you pronounce blubbed?
Blubbed is pronounced /blʌbd/.

Words near blubbed in the dictionary

  1. Blu-Tacks
  2. blub
  3. Blub paradox
  4. Blubaugh
  5. Blubaughs
  6. blubbed
  7. blubber
  8. blubber fish
  9. blubber fishes
  10. blubber-fish
  11. blubber-fishes

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