Also 45 bloberond. [f. as prec. + -ING2.]
† 1. Bubbling, gurgling (like a spring). Obs.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 9642. Till the bloberond blode blend with the rayn.
1646. Crashaw, Steps to Temp., 33. At my feet the blubbring mountain, Weeping, melts into a fountain.
1863. Baring-Gould, Iceland, xxi. 363. The bottom of this is also full of little blubbering springs.
2. Shedding tears profusely (obs.); weeping and sobbing noisily and unrestrainedly. A contemptuous expression for weeping.
1581. Newton, Senecas Thebais, 49 b. My trickling teares, my blubbring Eyes, may put you out of doubt.
1753. Jane Collier, Art Torment., 46. Begone out of my sight, you blubbering fool.
1862. Sat. Rev., 13 Sept., 301. The somewhat scornful astonishment which is aroused in the undeveloped English mind when it is first called upon to sympathize with the blubbering demigods of Ilium.
Hence Blubberingly adv.
1835. Beckford, Recoll., 116. Donna Inez was called and embraced by his right reverence most blubberingly.
1844. Tupper, Crock of G., xxv. 202. She kept calling blubberingly for Simon,poor dear Simon.