ppl. a. Also 6 bloubred. [f. BLUBBER v. + -ED.] Flooded with tears; said of the eyes, cheeks, face; in later usage also, swollen and disfigured with weeping.

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c. 1575.  Cambyses, in Hazl., Dodsley, IV. 208. With blubb’red eyes into my arms I will thee take.

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1591.  Spenser, Daphn., 551. Did rend his haire, and beat his blubbred face.

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c. 1630.  Drumm. of Hawth., Wks., 51. A blubber’d band Of weeping virgins.

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1718.  Prior, Poems, 96. Dear Cloe, how blubber’d is that pretty Face?

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1860.  Hawthorne, Marb. Faun (1878), I. vii. 86. Representing the poor girl with blubbered eyes.

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  † 2.  Loosely used for BLUBBER a.: Swollen; a. said of thick protruding lips. Obs.

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1634.  Sir T. Herbert, Trav., 14. I omit their flat noses, and blubberd lips, bigge enough without addition.

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1697.  Dryden, Virg. Eclog., III. 34.

          Thou sing with him, thou Booby; never Pipe
Was so profan’d to touch the blubber’d Lip.

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1714.  Gay, Sheph. Week, III. 39. Her blubber’d Lip by smutty Pipes is worn.

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  † b.  fig. Inflated like a bubble. Obs. rare.

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1699.  Pomfret, Poems (1724), 72. Swell’d with Success and blubber’d up with Pride.

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