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"etymology_text": "Compare bleb and blob.",
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"ref": "1935 November, Arthur Leo Zagat, chapter IV, in Dime Mystery Magazine",
"text": "The grotesquely ornamented goats, crazed by the Hamelin piping, stampeded toward him. They piled up, shoving one another from the causeway, screaming with almost human agony as the black mud and the quicksand caught them, screaming till their shrieks blubbed into silence.",
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"(obsolete) To swell; to puff out, as with weeping."
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