a. [f. BLUBBER sb. + -Y1.] Of the nature of (whale’s) blubber. Also fig.
1791. E. Darwin, Bot. Gard., I. 44. Spears and javelins pierce his blubbery sides.
1853. Landor, Last Fruit (1853), 345. Democracy is the blubbery spawn begotten by the drunkenness of aristocracy.
1880. Daily Tel., 20 Sept., 5/2. The gelatinous and blubbery surface of the whale’s body.
