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lubbard Obs. exc. Sc. and north. dial.|ˈlʌbəd|
Also 7 lubberd, 8 lubber'd, 9 lobbart, lubbart, -ert.
[Altered form of lubber: see -ard.]
= lubber n.
1586in Neal Hist. Purit. (1754) I. 321 That all cathedral churches may be put down... They are the dens of idle loitering lubbards. 1612tr. Benvenuto's Passenger i. i. 3 Thou slouenly lubberd, and toyish fellow, what idle toyes goest thou fantasticating. 1712Steele Spect. No. 466 ⁋1 In all the Dances he invents..he keeps close to the Characters he represents. He gives to Clowns and Lubbards clumsy Graces. 1724Ramsay Health 306 Sciatic, jaundice, dropsy, or the stone, Alternate makes the lazy lubbard groan. 1823Scott Peveril xxxv, I need only instance..the celebrated downfall of Goliah, and of another lubbard. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Lubber, or Lubbart, an awkward unseamanlike fellow. 1899H. Pease Tales Northumbria 173 Thoo great clumsy lubbert, see what thoo's done!
b. attrib., appositive or quasi-adj.: Lubberly.
1679Earl of Rochester in Roxb. Ball. (1883) IV. 567 So have I seen at Smithfield's wondrous Fair,..A lubbard Elephant divert the Town. 1710Medley No. 2/3 His lubber'd Genius from its Byass crost, In heaps of false Arithmetick is lost. 1711Ibid. No. 39/1 The other..was such a Lubbard Trickster, so aukward at Mischief. 1784Cowper Task iii. 400 Conscious how much the hand Of lubbard Labour needs his watchful eye. 1817J. F. Pennie Roy. Minstr. v. 5 Ocean..stretches its lubbard arms Along the shores low growling. |