Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US) a grossly fat person.

1971		Newsweek 29 Nov. 20: ‘Take your homesick eyes off a me, blubberass,’ the Marine drill sergeant bayed at a plump young recruit [HDAS].
1999		‘Screw South Park, I’m Going Home’ South Park [TV script] cartman: Sounds more like a total Canadian dildo to me. kyle: You can shut up, blubberass!
2001		M.E. Baker ‘The Wednesday Panties’ 🌐 ‘Doorman, hah! That blubberass was zonked, snored through the whole thing.’ Yeah, Danny, the night doorman could sleep through World War Three.

a very fat person.

1942

Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Sl. §429.2: fat person blubber-belly.

(orig. US) a grossly fat person.

1953		L. Uris Battle Cry (1964) 56: What’s the matter, blubber butt?
1968		(con. WWII) D. Westheimer Song of the Young Sentry (1969) 28: You know something, Blubberbutt? Wouldn’t hurt you a damn bit to miss a few meals.
1971		T. Thackrey Thief 257: I had to use some tape [...] to tie up blubber-butt’s hands and feet.
2005		T. Alan Who Do You Know [ebook] I sensed that all the skinny bitches were saying, What loser would marry that lardass blubber butt?

large, loose cheeks.

c.1786

Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: Blubber Cheeks large flaccid Cheeks, hanging like the fat or Blubber of a Whale.

(US) a grossly fat person.

1823		‘Jon Bee’ Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc. 13: Blubber-headed—thick meaty nob. So ‘blubber-mouthed‘ and ‘blubber guts.’.
1942		Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Sl. §429.2: fat person blubber-guts.
1948		(con. c.1910) J. Stevens Big Jim Turner 104: The unweaned blubber-gut bawled and took on about how I’d broken a rib for him.
1954		(con. 1940s) T.A.G. Hungerford Sowers of the Wind 73: ‘Who cares?’ ‘Blubberguts, for one.’.
1966		‘Tom Pendleton’ Iron Orchard (1967) 137: Looked like he was about to unload on ol’ blubber-gut, then he just walked off.
2002		J. Miller Center Square Ch. i: She was leaving me because I was fat, uncontrollably voracious, unable to have sex or even take a walk on the beach, a gigantic, useless, contumacious blubbergut of a husband.
2005		J. Stahl I, Fatty 201: This ain’t a rooming house for famous blubber-guts.

a fool, a foolish person’s head; thus blubber-headed adj., foolish.

1772		Bridges Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 42: I wish I ha’n’t some favour won / For her great blubber-headed son.
1823		‘Jon Bee’ Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc. 13: Blubber-headed—thick meaty nob.
1827		J. Wight More Mornings in Bow St. 236: ‘Come here, blubberhead, and I’ll whop you!’.
1832		Morn. Chron. (London) 18 Aug. 4/4: The landlord ordered the waiter not to supply them; upon which one of them called him ‘blubberhead’.
1837		‘Nights At Sea’ in Bentley’s Misc. May 479: ‘Werry sorry, my dear,’ says he, shaking his blubber head like a booby.
1841		Morn. Post (London) 16 Jan. 4/2: The defendant came to the window, made faces, roared like a bull, and said, ‘Halloa, old blubberhead’.
1842		Cornwall Chron. (Launceston, Tas.) 29 Oct. 2/6: He flogs on the languid wit of his blubber head with Button's treble X and Hodges' cordials.
1842		Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 17 Dec. n.p.: the whip wants to know If that blubber head [...] intends paying.
1849		Sam Sly 20 Jan. 3/2: We advise the blubber-headed potboy [...] to stop and attend to the customers a little more, and not go running after the girls so much.
1850		Kentish Gaz. 1 Jan. 4/6: They turned round and called him ‘blubberhead’ and other names.
1859		Lincs. Chron. 20 May 5/2: Complainant retorted by saying that Dawson was a ‘blubberhead’.
1877		J. Greenwood Dick Temple III 121: This blubber-headed clerk of mine?
1884		Oxford Jrnl 22 Mar. 6/6: The defendant said that the complainant called him a ‘blubberhead’, and he struck him.
1914		Sport (Adelaide) 19 June 3/7: The Mitcham blubber heads are very jealous of their goo-good eyes .
1920		Marvel 21 Aug. 5: Not till it comes, old blubber-noddle!
1929		C. McKay Banjo 7: Why, sure it’s better, you black blubberhead.
1932		V.F. Nelson Prison Days and Nights 58: He was known variously as ‘The Rapey’ or ‘Old Blubberhead’ by the inmates.
1933		J.T. Farrell Gas-House McGinty 187: Hell of a nerve you got, calling any one blubber-head. That’s just what you are, a blubber-head.
1944		D. Runyon Runyon à la Carte 191: If I do not let her talk me into making this stop for a farewell to the blubberhead I will have her aboard the Zoozoo.
1952		(con. 1920s) ‘Harry Grey’ Hoods (1953) 82: Even jail was not a safe sanctuary for that big scar-faced blubberhead.

(US) a whaling ship.

1841		F.A. Olmsted Incidents of a Whaling Voyage 327: The merchantman, as he is ploughing his way over the deep under a cloud of canvass, disdains the dirty ‘blubber hunter’.
1859		H.T. Cheever Whaleman’s Adventures 75: If ‘money makes the mare to go,’ so does oil the crew of a ‘blubber hunter,’ from the green cabin-boy to the sable doctor [i.e the black ship’s cook].
1864		W.B. Whitecar Four Years aboard the Whaleship 160: The Government employed her as a revenue cutter, but now she had fallen from her high estate and was employed as a blubber-hunter.
1870		H.C. Johnson Walter Raleigh Sinjohn 21: Sometimes a Yankee ‘blubber hunter’ would call, perhaps, short of stores, after a long cruise bay whaling, from the mouth of the Camaroon River, to below the coast of Congo.
1887		G. Davis Recoll. Sea-Wanderer 81: The drunken swabs are not fit to scrape the decks of a blubber-hunter. Stand by to wake ’em up with a little belaying-pin soup.
1896		‘Frederick Benton Williams’ (H.E. Hamblen) On Many Seas 239: It is a popular belief among merchant seamen that ‘blubber hunters’ are grease and soot from keel to truck.

see separate entries.

one whose face has heavy jowls or ugly features.

1953

Kramer & Karr Teen-Age Gangs 19: What’ll you do, blubber mush?

of a woman, esp. when large and coarse, to expose one’s breasts.

c.1786		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: Blubber. to Sport Blubber said of a large coarse woman, who exposes her Bosom.
1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (2nd, 3rd edn) n.p.:
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.