lubber

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Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
14
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈlʌbə(ɹ)/

Definition of lubber

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (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

  1. (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!”
  2. An inexperienced or novice sailor; a landlubber.
  3. (Southern-US)An eastern lubber grasshopper (Romalea microptera).
  4. (South-Asia)Alteration of rubber.

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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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