Butterball vs Blubbo - What's the difference?
butterball | blubbo | Synonyms |
A round lump of a coagulated fat used in cooking such as butter, margarine, or a spread
(derogatory) An overweight person.
* 1988 , Vicki Lansky, Fat-Proofing your Children – so that they Never Become Diet-Addicted Adults , page 62
A small North American duck.
* 1917 , in the Hunter-Trader-Trapper , volume 34, page 37:
(slang, pejorative) an overweight or obese person.
* 1985 , Dee Matthews, Allan Zullo, Bruce M. Nash, The you can do it! kids diet
* 1989 , Marguerite Kelly, Katy Kelly, The mother's almanac II , Volume 2
* 1997 , David Cody Weiss, Bobbi J. G. Weiss, Good switch, bad switch , page 109
* 2004 , Fred Grandinetti, Popeye: an illustrated cultural history , page 308
Butterball is a synonym of blubbo.
As nouns the difference between butterball and blubbo
is that butterball is a round lump of a coagulated fat used in cooking such as butter, margarine, or a spread while blubbo is (slang|pejorative) an overweight or obese person.butterball
English
Noun
(en noun)- "What if your baby is a butterball ? Does Fat-Proofing mean you should put your infant on diet?."
- The skipper had his eye on a bunch of butterballs feeding not far from the boat. In fact there were ducks all around — though he did not tell me so.
Synonyms
* See alsoblubbo
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- 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.
- "Watch it, blubbo !" shot Salem.
- POPEYE I'm rights behind ya, blubbo !