[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of weeping profusely and noisily.
1580. North, Plutarch (1676), 172. Lamentations made at the funerals of the dead, with blubbering and beating themselues.
1741. Richardson, Pamela (1824), I. xi. 22. He was angry, and said … Cease your blubbering.
1872. Darwin, Emotions, vi. 156. Paroxysms of violent crying or blubbering.
