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blub

(blʌb)

vb, blubs, blubbing or blubbed

Brit a slang word for blubber¹, blubber², blubber³

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

blub

Past participle: blubbed
Gerund: blubbing

Imperative
blub
blub

Present
I blub
you blub
he/she/it blubs
we blub
you blub
they blub

Preterite
I blubbed
you blubbed
he/she/it blubbed
we blubbed
you blubbed
they blubbed

Present Continuous
I am blubbing
you are blubbing
he/she/it is blubbing
we are blubbing
you are blubbing
they are blubbing

Present Perfect
I have blubbed
you have blubbed
he/she/it has blubbed
we have blubbed
you have blubbed
they have blubbed

Past Continuous
I was blubbing
you were blubbing
he/she/it was blubbing
we were blubbing
you were blubbing
they were blubbing

Past Perfect
I had blubbed
you had blubbed
he/she/it had blubbed
we had blubbed
you had blubbed
they had blubbed

Future
I will blub
you will blub
he/she/it will blub
we will blub
you will blub
they will blub

Future Perfect
I will have blubbed
you will have blubbed
he/she/it will have blubbed
we will have blubbed
you will have blubbed
they will have blubbed

Future Continuous
I will be blubbing
you will be blubbing
he/she/it will be blubbing
we will be blubbing
you will be blubbing
they will be blubbing

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been blubbing
you have been blubbing
he/she/it has been blubbing
we have been blubbing
you have been blubbing
they have been blubbing

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been blubbing
you will have been blubbing
he/she/it will have been blubbing
we will have been blubbing
you will have been blubbing
they will have been blubbing

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been blubbing
you had been blubbing
he/she/it had been blubbing
we had been blubbing
you had been blubbing
they had been blubbing

Conditional
I would blub
you would blub
he/she/it would blub
we would blub
you would blub
they would blub

Past Conditional
I would have blubbed
you would have blubbed
he/she/it would have blubbed
we would have blubbed
you would have blubbed
they would have blubbed

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Verb

blub - cry or whine with snuffling; "Stop snivelling--you got yourself into this mess!"

blubber, sniffle, snivel, snuffle

weep, cry - shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain; "She cried bitterly when she heard the news of his death"; "The girl in the wheelchair wept with frustration when she could not get up the stairs"

Translations

blub

[blʌb] VI (Brit) → lloriquear

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

blub

vi (inf) → heulen (inf), → flennen (inf, pej)

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Watching him blub relentlessly when young men and women rowers fail to make the grade has had me in floods too.