lubbardn.
/ˈlʌbəd/ Obsolete exc. Scottish and northern dialect.
a. = lubber n.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > stupid person, dolt, blockhead > lout, oaf, booby > [noun]
lubber1362
looby1377
howfing?a1513
slouch?1518
bowberta1522
knuckylbonyarda1529
lob1533
lout1548
patch1549
hoballa1556
lilburnea1556
lobcocka1556
chub1558
hick1565
lourd1579
peasant1581
clown1583
lubbard1586
lumberer1593
lump1597
blooterc1600
boobyc1600
lob-coat1604
hoy1607
bacon-brainsa1635
alcatote1638
oaf1638
kelf1665
brute1670
dowf1722
gawky1724
chuckle1731
chuckle-head1731
John Trott1753
stega1823
lummoxa1825
gawk1837
country jakea1854
guffin1862
galoot1866
stot1877
lobster1896
mutt1900
palooka1920
schlub1950
the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [noun] > lazy person > loutish or stupid
lubber1362
slouch?1518
lubber-wort1547
litherback1577
lubbard1586
lither lurdena1590
litherby1598
society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > inefficient, lazy, or unseamanlike sailor
lubber1579
guinea pig1748
marine1829
soldier1840
lubbard1867
Paddy Wester1892
ullage1901
oily wad1925
1586 in Neal Hist. Purit. (1754) I. 321 That all cathedral churches may be put down... They are the dens of idle loitering lubbards.
1612 Mr. King tr. Benvenuto Passenger i. i. 3 Thou slouenly lubberd, and toyish fellow, what idle toyes goest thou fantasticating.
1712 R. Steele Spectator 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.
1724 A. Ramsay Health 306 Sciatic, jaundice, dropsy, or the stone, Alternate makes the lazy lubbard groan.
1823 W. Scott Peveril III. xii. 306 I need only instance..the celebrated downfall of Goliah, and of another lubbard.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Lubber, or Lubbart, an awkward unseamanlike fellow.
1899 H. Pease Tales Northumbria 173 Thoo great clumsy lubbert, see what thoo's done!
b. attributive, appositive or quasi-adj.: Lubberly.
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the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > clumsy or awkward
stubblea1300
lubber?1515
awkward1530
unwieldy1530
lubberlike1572
unwieldsome1579
lubberly1580
looby1582
wieldy1588
clumsy1597
ungainly1611
unqueme1611
untowardly1611
clouter-likea1624
hip-shot1642
loobish1648
loobily1655
bumble-arsed1661
clouterly1675
lubbard1679
fumbling1681
sinistrousa1682
maladroit1685
shammockinga1704
ungain1710
splay-footed1716
gawky1759
hobbledehoyish1812
uncouthly1821
nunting1836
shammocky1841
numb1854
awkwardish1860
slummocky?1861
numb-footed1867
gawkish1876
flat-footed1899
brontosaurian1909
shamblya1937
slew-foot1945
ham-footed1960
klutzy1961
dorkus1979
1679 Earl of Rochester in Roxburghe Ballads (1883) IV. 567 So have I seen at Smithfield's wondrous Fair,..A lubbard Elephant divert the Town.
1710 Medley No. 2/3 His lubber'd Genius from its Byass crost, In heaps of false Arithmetick is lost.
1711 Medley No. 39/1 The other..was such a Lubbard Trickster, so aukward at Mischief.
1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 400 Conscious how much the hand Of lubbard Labour needs his watchful eye.
1817 J. F. Pennie Royal Minstrel v. 5 Ocean..stretches its lubbard arms Along the shores low growling.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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