An alternative spelling or dialectal form of 'blubber,' meaning to cry noisily or the fat layer found on whales and seals.
Variant of 'blubber,' possibly from Middle Dutch 'blubberen' (to bubble), related to the sound of crying or whale fat bubbling in rendering tanks.
Whale blubber is one of the most efficient insulators in nature—it can be up to 1.5 feet thick and keeps whales warm in sub-zero arctic waters better than any human-made material, which is why whalers hunted them for it for centuries.
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