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 whales body.