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Lubber

//ˈlʌbə(ɹ)// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A clumsy or lazy person. archaic

    "[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. 2
    an inexperienced sailor; a sailor on the first voyage wordnet
  3. 3
    An inexperienced or novice sailor; a landlubber.
  4. 4
    an awkward stupid person wordnet
  5. 5
    An eastern lubber grasshopper (Romalea microptera). Southern-US
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  1. 6
    Alteration of rubber. South-Asia

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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