Middle English Dictionary Entry
blober n.
Entry Info
| Forms | blober n. Also bluber. |
| Etymology | Imitative |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. blabbe.
1.
(a) A bubble; med. a pustule; (b) bubbling water, foaming or seething waves; ~ mere; (c) intestines, entrails; (d) fish or whale oil.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1438) MKempe B (Add 61823)222/11 : Hys face wex ful of whelys & bloberys as it had ben a lepyr.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)42/93 : Iff þow se þer aboue as it was bloburs lyke to that þat standith on water when it raynyth.
b
- (1296) Sub.R.Sus.in Sus.RS 1086 : Walt. Blobermere.
- c1400(?c1380) Patience (Nero A.10)221 : In bluber of þe blo flod bursten her ores.
- c1400(?c1380) Patience (Nero A.10)266 : How fro þe bot in-to þe blober watz wyth a best lachched.
c
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)40 : Blobure [vr. blobore]: Burbulium, burbalium.
d
- (1467) in Gras Eng.Cust.Syst.615 : Pro iiii barellis blobbyr'.
- (1467) in Gras Eng.Cust.Syst.618 : vi barellis blobbyr'.
- (1467) in Gras Eng.Cust.Syst.619 : iiii barellis blobbyr.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- ?a1475 Cmb.Dd.5.76 Artist.Recipes (Cmb Dd.5.76) 218/34 : Take fair nesche white calke and grinde it..and put þerto a littel of þi glaire..and þan streyne it þorow cloth, and if it full of bleberes do þi nere sope þareto and þat will destroy it.
Note: Additional quot., sense (a). New spelling.