subs. phr. (common).—Fat, flaccid cheeks: also ‘Old Blubber-cheeks’ = a jeering address. Hence BLUBBER- (or BLUB-) CHEEKED = swollen cheeked; so also with other obvious combinations such as BLUBBER-LIPS, etc.
1606. SYLVESTER, The Lawe, 1004.
| Rough-blustering Boreas, nurst with Riphean snowe, | |
| And BLUB-CHEEKT Auster, puft with fumes before, | |
| Met in the midst, justling for room, do roar. |
