When you apply for disability after age 60 but before full retirement age, if you don't meet the requirements of a medical listing, Social Security applies special age-specific rules when it evaluates your disability.
Blubber is the thick layer of fat that keeps whales and other large swimming mammals warm in the cold water. Inuits and other northern people have traditionally relied on eating blubber. Based on marine animal blubber, some people describe human fat as blubber too â often in a derogatory way. When blubber is a verb, it means to sob uncontrollably: The little girl sat down and started to blubber after skinning her knee..
A blunder is an embarrassing mistake. Accidentally called your new boyfriend by your old boyfriend's name? Ouch. That's a blunder you don't want to repeat. Has an embarrassing mistake ever made you feel like youâre stumbling around with your eyes closed? If so, it wonât surprise you to learn that blunder comes from the Old Norse word blundra, meaning to âshut one's eyes.â It wasnât until the eighteenth century that blunder came to refer to a stupid or embarrassing mistake, or as a verb, to describe making such a mistake, as in âI tend to blunder when I'm nervous.â.