Obs. An attrib. use of BLUB v., chiefly used in combination (cf. knock-knee’d) with sense ‘Swollen, puffed, protruding,’ as in blub-cheeks, -lips; whence in comb. blub-cheeked, blub-faced, etc.
1603. Knolles, Hist. Turkes (1621), 775. Blub cheeked, and exceeding red faced.
1620. Shelton, Quix., III. x. 64. A Country Wench … blub-fac’d, and flat-nosed.
1679. Shadwell, True Widow, II. Wks. 1720, III. 147. You have a pretty pouting about the mouth … and fine little blub-lips.
