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blubber n

(countable, uncountable) A fatty layer of adipose tissue found immediately beneath the epidermis of whales and other cetaceans (infraorder Cetacea). (uncountable) A fatty layer of adipose tissue found in other animals which keeps them warm, especially Arctic animals such as sea lions and Antarctic animals such as penguins. (uncountable, informal, chiefly derogatory and offensive) A person's fat tissue, usually when regarded as excessive and unsightly. (countable, by extension, archaic) A jellyfish (subphylum Medusozoa). (countable, chiefly derogatory) An act of crying or weeping freely and noisily. (countable, obsolete) A bubble. [...] The American author Herman Melville’s novel Moby-Dick, about a whaling ship captain’s pursuit of a giant sperm whale, was first published on this day in 1851.

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