blubbery

1. 1.

   swollen with fat

   “blubber cheeks”

   “blubber lips”

   “a coarse blubbery individual”

   Similarfat

Questions about blubbery

What does blubbery mean?

blubbery means "swollen with fat".

How many syllables are in blubbery?

blubbery has 3 syllables and divides as blub-be-ry under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is blubbery a common word?

blubbery is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.