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Lubberland|ˈlʌbəlænd|
An imaginary land of plenty without labour; a land of laziness.
1598Florio, Cocagna, as we say Lubberland. 1614B. Jonson Bart. Fair iii. ii, Good mother, how shall we finde a pigge, if we doe not looke about for't? will it run off o' the spit, into our mouths thinke you? as in Lubberland? and cry, we, we? 1633Shirley Gamester iii. (1637) F 2 b, And so I commend mee to all your friends in Lubber-Land. 1681W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. (1693) 621 Weak-witted; a wittal; a fool; born in Lubberland. 1827Scott Napoleon IV. 206 A Grand Elector, who was to be the very model of a king of Lubberland. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. 238 Pining after your Lubberland, as usual,—your Millennium of mere ease and plentiful supply. 1893McCarthy Red Diamonds I. 160 Luxuriously enjoying his monarchy of the lubberland of bed. |