The object of this curious arrangement is to enable the whale to catch the little shrimps and small sea-blubbers, called "medusae," on which it feeds.
"Fighting the Whales"
R.M. Ballantyne
Next minute he sneered at himself, like a schoolmaster at a boy who blubbers, and without further paltering put on his hat, took up a very slender cane with a slender grasp of yellow ivory, and ran down the long stairs of his house to the street.
"Aurora the Magnificent"
Gertrude Hall
And then the old man blubbers like a child, For very joy.
"The Comedies of Terence"
Publius Terentius Afer