blub

[bluhb] Origin

blub

[bluhb]
noun
a swelling of fresh plasterwork.

Origin:
1550–60; variant of blob
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Blub is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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blub (blʌb)
 
vb , blubs, blubbing, blubbed
(Brit) a slang word for blubber

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blub
"fit of weeping," 1894, imitative.
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