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blubbo en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈblʌboʊ/
  • (Australia) audio

Etymology

From blubber + -o.

Meanings

  1. (derogatory, slang) An overweight or obese person.
    • 1985, Dee Matthews, Allan Zullo, Bruce M. Nash, The you can do it! kids diet Bob, fifteen, lost 15 pounds and was 25 pounds from his goal: I've been called names like "fatso" and "blubbo" and that gets me real mad.
    • POPEYE I'm rights behind ya, blubbo! 2004, Fred Grandinetti, Popeye: an illustrated cultural history, page 308
    • You study it together once a week to help him see the pitfalls, but don't get mad when he succumbs to what our flock lovingly calls a "blubbo attack." It's bound to happen. 1989, Marguerite Kelly, Katy Kelly, The mother's almanac II, Volume 2
    • "Watch it, blubbo!" shot Salem. 1997, David Cody Weiss, Bobbi J. G. Weiss, Good switch, bad switch, page 109

Forms

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Synonyms

fatty · fatfuck · obeast · fatass · fatso · chunker · butterball

Translations (3)

es morsa (overweight person) · es grasote (overweight person) · es guatón (overweight person)