Reading
Shortcuts
Home
All Articles
Read from Another Site
Sources
Wikipedia
Simple Wikipedia
VOA Learning English
Futurity
The Conversation
MIT News
Harvard Gazette
Cambridge News
YDS/YÖKDİL Passages
Topics
Technology
Engineering
Business
Economics
Human
Health
Energy
Biology
Nature
Space
Log in
Sign up
1.92
History
Add
blub
verb
[ blʌb ]
• cry noisily and uncontrollably; sob.
• "their mummies blub when they kiss them goodbye"
Origin:
early 19th century: abbreviation of blubber2.