Also 4–5 bloberond. [f. as prec. + -ING2.]

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  † 1.  Bubbling, gurgling (like a spring). Obs.

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c. 1400.  Destr. Troy, 9642. Till the bloberond blode blend with the rayn.

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1646.  Crashaw, Steps to Temp., 33. At my feet the blubb’ring mountain, Weeping, melts into a fountain.

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1863.  Baring-Gould, Iceland, xxi. 363. The bottom of this is also full of little blubbering springs.

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  2.  Shedding tears profusely (obs.); weeping and sobbing noisily and unrestrainedly. A contemptuous expression for ‘weeping.’

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1581.  Newton, Seneca’s Thebais, 49 b. My trickling teares, my blubbring Eyes, may put you out of doubt.

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1753.  Jane Collier, Art Torment., 46. Begone out of my sight, you blubbering fool.

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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.

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  Hence Blubberingly adv.

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1835.  Beckford, Recoll., 116. Donna Inez was called … and embraced by his right reverence most blubberingly.

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1844.  Tupper, Crock of G., xxv. 202. She … kept calling blubberingly for ‘Simon,—poor dear Simon.’

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