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adjective
- clumsily, Clumsy and stupid; resembling a lubber (an inexperienced person).
- 1693, w:Thomas Urquhart, Thomas Urquhart, translation of wikisource:Gargantua, Gargantua by w:Rabelais, Rabelais, Chapter XX:
- Ponocrates and Eudemon burst out in a laughing so heartily, that they had almost split with it, and given up the ghost, in rendering their souls to God: even just as Crassus did, seeing a ass eat thistles;
- Lacking in seamanship; of or suitable to a landlubber who is new to being at sea and unfamiliar with the ways of a sailor.
- 1848, w:James Fenimore Cooper, James Fenimore Cooper, "Captain Spike, Or The Islets of the Gulf", in Bentley's Miscellany http://books.google.com/books?id=79zu_mUqPYgC, page 19:
- "Do not use such a expression, my dear Rose, if you respect your father's profession. On a vessel is a new-fangled Americanism, that is neither fish, flesh, nor red-herring, as we sailors say," neither English nor Greek."
adverb
- In the manner of a landlubber.
- 1839, Matthew Henry Barker, Hamilton King http://books.google.com/books?id=X3wEAAAAQAAJ, page 105:
- I'm not ignorant of these matters, having been many years at sea"and seamen, you must know, are curious in knots; I cannot endure to see anything done .
Etymology: (suffix, lubber, ly)
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