lubber
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 6
Definition of lubber
4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(archaic)A clumsy or lazy person.
“[T]hree of the boys, of whom Mr. Hector was sometimes one, used to come in the morning as his humble attendants, and carry him [Johnson] to school. […] The purfly, sand-blind lubber and blubber, with his open mouth, and face of bruised honeycomb; yet already dominant, imperial, irresistible!”
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noun
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(archaic)A clumsy or lazy person.
“[T]hree of the boys, of whom Mr. Hector was sometimes one, used to come in the morning as his humble attendants, and carry him [Johnson] to school. […] The purfly, sand-blind lubber and blubber, with his open mouth, and face of bruised honeycomb; yet already dominant, imperial, irresistible!”
- An inexperienced or novice sailor; a landlubber.
- (Southern-US)An eastern lubber grasshopper (Romalea microptera).
- (South-Asia)Alteration of rubber.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English, perhaps from Old French lobeor (“swindler”), or of Scandinavian origin, compare dialectal Swedish lubber. The grasshopper was likely so called after sense 1 (“a clumsy or lazy person”).
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