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lubberly, a. and adv.|ˈlʌbəlɪ|
[f. lubber n. + -ly.]
A. adj.
1. Of the nature of a lubber; coarse of figure and dull of intellect, loutish; clumsy; lazy; stupid; sometimes transf. of animals and inanimate things. Also of things: Appropriate to or characteristic of a lubber.
1573Tusser Husb. ix. (1878) 17 To raise betimes the lubberly, Both Snorting Hob and Margery. 1598Shakes. Merry W. v. v. 195, I came yonder at Eaton to marry Mistris Anne Page, and she's a great lubberly boy. 1618Bolton Florus (1636) 171 They..according to their lubberly wits, assayd to stop it first with their bodies. 1671Clarendon Dial. Tracts (1727) 323 Those lubberly fellows, who come from great schools after they are nineteen or twenty years of age. 1728Vanbr. & Cibber Prov. Husb. i. Wks. (1730) 230, I wonder..you will encourage that lad to swill his guts thus with such beastly, lubberly liquor. 1759Wesley Wks. (1872) II. 477 All but four or five lubberly men seemed almost persuaded to be Christians. 1838Dickens O. Twist x, ‘I did that, sir’, said a great lubberly fellow, stepping forward. 1847J. Wilson Chr. North (1857) I. 139 Great lubberly Leicesters or Southdowns [sheep]. 1859A. Cary Country Life (1876) 188 A lubberly, yellow-haired boy of twelve years old kicks open the door. 1862J. Grant Capt. Guard xxii, Great lubberly barges were dragged to and fro by horses of equally lubberly aspect. 1864Burton Scot Abr. I. iv. 184 James..in his lubberly schoolboy-like complaints about his mother, showed that he knew about them.
2. In nautical use: Resembling, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lubber; unseamanlike. Of a vessel: Managed in an unseamanlike manner.
[1695Congreve Love for L. ii. 29 D'ee think shee'll ever endure a great lubberly Tarpawlin?] 1795–7Southey Minor Poems Poet. Wks. II. 81 You lubberly landsmen don't know when you're well! 1831E. J. Trelawny Adv. Younger Son I. 44 You don't take me for that lubberly school-mastering parson on board, do you? 1849Grote Greece ii. xlvii. VI. 87 His seamen had full leisure to contemplate what they would despise as lubberly handling of the ships. 1884Manch. Exam. 27 Dec. 5/1 There never was a clearer case of lubberly navigation. 1887Besant The World went vi. 49 One [ship]..is obedient to her helm, the other shall be lubberly and difficult to steer.
B. adv. In a lubberly manner; like a lubber; unskilfully, clumsily.
1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. 6 Ouer my necke he throwes himself verie lubberly. 1693Dryden Orig. & Progr. Satire Ess. (ed. Ker) II. 56 A company of clowns on a holiday, dancing lubberly. 1823Examiner 320/1 A large frigate,..lubberly handled. 1884Manch. Exam. 8 May 5/2 It is difficult to imagine that..either vessel can have been so lubberly managed as to run into the other. |