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blubber(verb) To sob noisily. Synonyms: sniffle, snivel, snuffleUsage: Stop blubbering—you got yourself into this mess!
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[Middle English bluberen, to bubble, from bluber, foam.] I am quite familiar with "You blubbering idiot!!!"
and now I can see the foam & bubbles...makes sense but not very compassionate or kind...
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I don't like this word because it seems mean. I think about the people crying at their family member's funeral.
Little drops of water~Little grains of sand~Make the mighty ocean~And the pleasant land~So the little moments~Humble though they be~Make the mighty ages ~Of Eternity/by Julia Fletcher Carney
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reiki333 wrote:[Middle English bluberen, to bubble, from bluber, foam.] I am quite familiar with "You blubbering idiot!!!"
and now I can see the foam & bubbles...makes sense but not very compassionate or kind... I always thought it was "You blunddering idiot!" 
“Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel ... they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer ... It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex.” – Charlotte Brontë (English novelist; 1816-1855)
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Blunder
n.
A usually serious mistake typically caused by ignorance or confusion.
So, "blundering idiot" is also a proper usage, it just has a different meaning.
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