lubbern.

Brit.

/ˈlʌbə/, U.S.

/ˈləbər/

Forms: Middle English lobre, lobur, 1500s lober, loubber, lubbo(u)r, lub(b)ur, luber, lubbarre, 1500s–1600s lubbar, 1500s– lubber.

Etymology: The form may possibly belong to an adoption of Old French lobeor swindler, parasite, agent-noun < lober to deceive, sponge upon, mock; but if so the sense has been altered by association with lob n.² (compare the Dutch and Norwegian cognates mentioned under that word).

a. A big, clumsy, stupid fellow; esp. one who lives in idleness; a lout. Also in †to play the lubber. In early quots. frequently applied to a monk (cf. abbey-lubber n.). Obsolete exc. archaic or dialect.

ΘΚΠ

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

1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. Prol. 52 Grete lobres [MS. H. (c1400) loburs] and longe þat loþ weore to swynke Cloþeden hem in Copes.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 615/2 I lubber, I playe the lubber, je loricarde. You lubber as well as any knave in this towne.

c1530 A. Barclay Egloges iii. sig. Piij ^v Some be forgetfull,..Some craftles foolys, some prowd & neglygent If thou chaunge supposynge, some better for to haue Thou voydest a lubber & hast agayne a knaue.

?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye Prol. sig. a7 That we shuld no lenger..be dyspoyled & robbed of a syght of sturdye lubbarres.

a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) liiii. sig. Lvi Two greate lubbers brought after hym the heed of the monster in a great basket.

a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) ii. f. 31^v They went to the Grammer schole, litle children: they came from thence great lubbers: alwayes learning, and litle profiting.

1590 ‘Pasquil’ First Pt. Pasquils Apol. sig. D^v Will he neuer leaue to play the lubber? what a lazie, lowtish kind of argument is this.

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear iv. 88 If you will measure your lubbers length againe, tarry.

1671 J. Webster Metallographia i. 18 Idle Lubbers that dare not adventure from the air of their Countries.

1753 T. Gray Long Story in Six Poems 23 And so God save our noble King, And guard us from long-winded Lubbers.

1812 Sporting Mag. 40 159 The sparks which flew from the pipe of a lubber who was blowing smoke and fire about at the door of the Angel.

1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. xix. 208 Now is the lubber tame!

1888 B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases Lubber, or Lubber-yead, one very stupid indeed.

in extended use.c1826 Hood in A. A. Watts Life A. Watts (1884) II. 25 It..is but a hulking lubber of a paper.

b. esp. A sailor's term for: A clumsy seaman; an unseamanlike fellow. (Cf. landlubber n.)

ΘΚΠ

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

1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 33^v To lye wallowing like Lubbers in the ship of the common wealth, crying Lord, Lord, when we see the vessel toyle.

1750 T. Smollett Roderick Random (ed. 3) I. xxiv. 193 He swore woundily at the lieutenant, and called him..swab and lubber [1748 swabbard].

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Midshipman Afraid..of being stigmatized with the opprobrious epithet of lubber.

1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet II. iii. 66 The cowardly lubbers have all made sail.

1890 W. Besant Armorel of Lyonesse I. 39 Two lubbers! They ought not to be trusted with a boat.

†c. An inferior servant, drudge, scullion. Obsolete.

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > service in kitchen > [noun] > kitchen servant

squiller1303

waynpainc1330

kitchener1332

custronc1400

kitchen knave1440

scullion1483

scudler1488

swiller?a1500

dishwashera1529

lubber1538

kitchen maid1551

kitchen wencha1556

scull1566

washpot1570

kitchen stuff1582

scrape-trencher1603

kitchenist?1617

trencher-scraper1650

mediastine1658

drudge-pudding1737

marmiton1754

knife-boy1847

potwalloper1859

kitchen mechanic1861

1538 T. Elyot Dict. Mediastinus, a drudge or lubber, which doth in the howse all maner of vyle seruice, as swepe or clense the house, carie wodde to the kytchen, and other like drudgery.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Lubber, a mean Servant, that does all base Services in a House; a Drudge.

Compounds

C1. attributive and appositive passing into adj. (In lubber lips perhaps a different word; cf. blubber-lip.)

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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

?1515 Hyckescorner (de Worde) sig. A.viii^v Thou lubber Imagynacyon.

1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. H Sowe vp your lubber lippes.

1673 J. Dryden Amboyna Epil. sig. K^v Venetians do not more uncouthly ride, Than did their Lubber-State Mankind bestride.

1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 153 Astride The lubber Power himself triumphant sits.

1832 S. Ferguson Forging of Anchor 57 The kraken's back,..a lubber anchorage for sudden shallow'd miles.

1874 Ld. Tennyson Merlin & Vivien (new ed.) in Wks. VI. 14 Then, narrow court and lubber King, farewell!

1875 R. Browning Inn Album i. 1 Lubber prose o'ersprawls And straddling stops the path from left to right.

1892 H. Caine Scapegoat (ed. 5) xxvii. 310 His thick lubber lips working visibly.

C2. Special combinations. Also lubber fiend n., Lubberland n., lubber's hole n.

lubber-grasshopper n. a name for two large-bodied clumsy insects of the U.S.; (a) Brachystola magna, of the western plains; (b) Romalea microptera, of the Gulf States.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Orthoptera > family Acrididae > romalea microptera (lumber-grasshopper)

lubber-grasshopper1877

1877 Field & Forest 2 160 The ‘Lubber’ grasshopper [is the] large grasshopper Romalia microptera.

1885 Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) II. 194 The ‘Lubber Grasshopper’, or the Clumsy Locust, of the plains, Brachystola magna,..is..confined to the central portion of North America.

1962 Metcalf & Flint Destructive & Useful Insects (ed. 4) xii. 577 Large and small, lubberly grasshoppers often invade cotton from near-by waste lands and defoliate the plants... Lubber grasshoppers, differential grasshoppers.

lubber-head n. a stupid person, a blockhead; hence lubber-headed adj. ( Eng. Dial. Dict.).

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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > stupid person, dolt, blockhead > [noun]

asseOE

sotc1000

beastc1225

long-ear?a1300

stock1303

buzzard1377

mis-feelinga1382

dasarta1400

stonea1400

dasiberd14..

dottlec1400

doddypoll1401

dastardc1440

dotterel1440

dullardc1440

wantwit1449

jobardc1475

nollc1475

assheada1500

mulea1500

dull-pate15..

peak1509

dulbert?a1513

doddy-patec1525

noddypolla1529

hammer-head1532

dull-head?1534

capon1542

dolt1543

blockhead1549

cod's head1549

mome1550

grout-head1551

gander1553

skit-brains?1553

blocka1556

calfa1556

tomfool1565

dunce1567

druggard1569

cobble1570

dummel1570

Essex calf1573

jolthead1573

hardhead1576

beetle-head1577

dor-head1577

groutnoll1578

grosshead1580

thickskin1582

noddyship?1589

jobbernowl1592

beetle-brain1593

Dorbel1593

oatmeal-groat1594

loggerhead1595

block-pate1598

cittern-head1598

noddypoop1598

dorbellist1599

numps1599

dor1601

stump1602

ram-head1605

look-like-a-goose1606

ruff1606

clod1607

turf1607

asinego1609

clot-poll1609

doddiea1611

druggle1611

duncecomb1612

ox-head1613

clod-polla1616

dulman1615

jolterhead1620

bullhead1624

dunderwhelpa1625

dunderhead1630

macaroona1631

clod-patea1635

clota1637

dildo1638

clot-pate1640

stupid1640

clod-head1644

stub1644

simpletonian1652

bottle-head1654

Bœotiana1657

vappe1657

lackwit1668

cudden1673

plant-animal1673

dolt-head1679

cabbage head1682

put1688

a piece of wood1691

ouphe1694

dunderpate1697

numbskull1697

leather-head1699

nocky1699

Tom Cony1699

mopus1700

bluff-head1703

clod skull1707

dunny1709

dowf1722

stupe1722

gamphrel1729

gobbin?1746

duncehead1749

half-wit1755

thick-skull1755

jackass1756

woollen-head1756

numbhead1757

beef-head1775

granny1776

stupid-head1792

stunpolla1794

timber-head1794

wether heada1796

dummy1796

noghead1800

staumrel1802

muttonhead1803

num1807

dummkopf1809

tumphya1813

cod's head and shoulders1820

stoopid1823

thick-head1824

gype1825

stob1825

stookiea1828

woodenhead1831

ning-nong1832

log-head1834

fat-head1835

dunderheadism1836

turnip1837

mudhead1838

donkey1840

stupex1843

cabbage1844

morepork1845

lubber-head1847

slowpoke1847

stupiditarian1850

pudding-head1851

cod's head and shoulders1852

putty head1853

moke1855

mullet-head1855

pothead1855

mug1857

thick1857

boodle1862

meathead1863

missing link1863

half-baked1866

lunk1867

turnip-head1869

rummy1872

pumpkin-head1876

tattie1879

chump1883

dully1883

cretin1884

lunkhead1884

mopstick1886

dumbhead1887

peanut head1891

pie-face1891

doughbakea1895

butt-head1896

pinhead1896

cheesehead1900

nyamps1900

box head1902

bonehead1903

chickenhead1903

thickwit1904

cluck1906

boob1907

John1908

mooch1910

nitwit1910

dikkop1913

goop1914

goofus1916

rumdum1916

bone dome1917

moron1917

oik1917

jabroni1919

dumb-bell1920

knob1920

goon1921

dimwit1922

ivory dome1923

stone jug1923

dingleberry1924

gimp1924

bird brain1926

jughead1926

cloth-head1927

dumb1928

gazook1928

mouldwarp1928

ding-dong1929

stupido1929

mook1930

sparrow-brain1930

knobhead1931

dip1932

drip1932

epsilon1932

bohunkus1933

Nimrod1933

dumbass1934

zombie1936

pea-brain1938

knot-head1940

schlump1941

jarhead1942

Joe Soap1943

knuckle-head1944

nong1944

lame-brain1945

gobshite1946

rock-head1947

potato head1948

jerko1949

turkey1951

momo1953

poop-head1955

a right one1958

bam1959

nong-nong1959

dickhead1960

dumbo1960

Herbert1960

lamer1961

bampot1962

dipshit1963

bamstick1965

doofus1965

dick1966

pillock1967

zipperhead1967

dipstick1968

thickie1968

poephol1969

yo-yo1970

doof1971

cockhead1972

nully1973

thicko1976

wazzock1976

motorhead1979

mouth-breather1979

no-brainer1979

jerkwad1980

woodentop1981

dickwad1983

dough ball1983

dickweed1984

bawheid1985

numpty1985

jerkweed1988

dick-sucker1989

knob-end1989

Muppet1989

dingus1997

dicksack1999

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1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I Lubber-head, a stupid fellow.

1849 Lady Wilde tr. W. Meinhold Sidonia the Sorceress II. 286 If..the thoughtless lubberhead, had not let the ring fall.

lubber-lift v. (see quot. 1905).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [verb] > lift end of log

lubber-lift1905

1801 Spirit of Farmers' Museum 85 Our Democrats begin to muster, Rolling around an anxious eye, Some ‘lubber lifting’ power to spy.

1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 42 Lubber lift, to raise the end of a log by means of a pry, and through the use of weight instead of strength.

lubber's line n.

ΚΠ

1858 Mercantile Marine Mag. 5 34 The lubber's line of a compass.

lubber's mark n.

ΚΠ

a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 561/2 Lubber's Mark (Nautical).

lubber's point n. Nautical a vertical line inside a compass-case, indicating the direction of the ship's head.

ΚΠ

1840 H. Raper Pract. Navigation §142. 42 Care is taken to place the box so that lubber's point in the bowl, and the centre of the card, are in a line fore and aft, or parallel to the keel. But as lubber's point deviates a little from its proper position when the ship is heeled over, seamen do not implicitly depend upon it, as indeed the name implies.

1881 W. C. Russell Sailor's Sweetheart III. iv. 156 I..set the two compasses down with the lubber's points exactly parallel.

† lubber-wort n. Obsolete the (imaginary) herb that produces laziness; also, a lubber.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > drugs having specific effect > [adjective] > producing laziness

lubber-wort1547

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

1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. lxvi Whiles they do take theyr medecine [for the ‘fever lurden’] put no lubberwort into theyr potage.

?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 28 A loouely loober woorts, freklfaced, red heded, cleen trust in hiz dooblet.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	lubber
释义	lubbern. Brit. /ˈlʌbə/, U.S. /ˈləbər/ Forms: Middle English lobre, lobur, 1500s lober, loubber, lubbo(u)r, lub(b)ur, luber, lubbarre, 1500s–1600s lubbar, 1500s– lubber. Etymology: The form may possibly belong to an adoption of Old French lobeor swindler, parasite, agent-noun < lober to deceive, sponge upon, mock; but if so the sense has been altered by association with lob n.² (compare the Dutch and Norwegian cognates mentioned under that word). a. A big, clumsy, stupid fellow; esp. one who lives in idleness; a lout. Also in †to play the lubber. In early quots. frequently applied to a monk (cf. abbey-lubber n.). Obsolete exc. archaic or dialect. ΘΚΠ 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 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. Prol. 52 Grete lobres [MS. H. (c1400) loburs] and longe þat loþ weore to swynke Cloþeden hem in Copes. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 615/2 I lubber, I playe the lubber, je loricarde. You lubber as well as any knave in this towne. c1530 A. Barclay Egloges iii. sig. Piij ^v Some be forgetfull,..Some craftles foolys, some prowd & neglygent If thou chaunge supposynge, some better for to haue Thou voydest a lubber & hast agayne a knaue. ?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye Prol. sig. a7 That we shuld no lenger..be dyspoyled & robbed of a syght of sturdye lubbarres. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) liiii. sig. Lvi Two greate lubbers brought after hym the heed of the monster in a great basket. a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) ii. f. 31^v They went to the Grammer schole, litle children: they came from thence great lubbers: alwayes learning, and litle profiting. 1590 ‘Pasquil’ First Pt. Pasquils Apol. sig. D^v Will he neuer leaue to play the lubber? what a lazie, lowtish kind of argument is this. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear iv. 88 If you will measure your lubbers length againe, tarry. View more context for this quotation 1671 J. Webster Metallographia i. 18 Idle Lubbers that dare not adventure from the air of their Countries. 1753 T. Gray Long Story in Six Poems 23 And so God save our noble King, And guard us from long-winded Lubbers. 1812 Sporting Mag. 40 159 The sparks which flew from the pipe of a lubber who was blowing smoke and fire about at the door of the Angel. 1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. xix. 208 Now is the lubber tame! 1888 B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases Lubber, or Lubber-yead, one very stupid indeed. in extended use.c1826 Hood in A. A. Watts Life A. Watts (1884) II. 25 It..is but a hulking lubber of a paper. b. esp. A sailor's term for: A clumsy seaman; an unseamanlike fellow. (Cf. landlubber n.) ΘΚΠ 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 1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 33^v To lye wallowing like Lubbers in the ship of the common wealth, crying Lord, Lord, when we see the vessel toyle. 1750 T. Smollett Roderick Random (ed. 3) I. xxiv. 193 He swore woundily at the lieutenant, and called him..swab and lubber [1748 swabbard]. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Midshipman Afraid..of being stigmatized with the opprobrious epithet of lubber. 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet II. iii. 66 The cowardly lubbers have all made sail. 1890 W. Besant Armorel of Lyonesse I. 39 Two lubbers! They ought not to be trusted with a boat. †c. An inferior servant, drudge, scullion. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > service in kitchen > [noun] > kitchen servant squiller1303 waynpainc1330 kitchener1332 custronc1400 kitchen knave1440 scullion1483 scudler1488 swiller?a1500 dishwashera1529 lubber1538 kitchen maid1551 kitchen wencha1556 scull1566 washpot1570 kitchen stuff1582 scrape-trencher1603 kitchenist?1617 trencher-scraper1650 mediastine1658 drudge-pudding1737 marmiton1754 knife-boy1847 potwalloper1859 kitchen mechanic1861 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Mediastinus, a drudge or lubber, which doth in the howse all maner of vyle seruice, as swepe or clense the house, carie wodde to the kytchen, and other like drudgery. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Lubber, a mean Servant, that does all base Services in a House; a Drudge. Compounds C1. attributive and appositive passing into adj. (In lubber lips perhaps a different word; cf. blubber-lip.) ΘΚΠ 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 ?1515 Hyckescorner (de Worde) sig. A.viii^v Thou lubber Imagynacyon. 1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. H Sowe vp your lubber lippes. 1673 J. Dryden Amboyna Epil. sig. K^v Venetians do not more uncouthly ride, Than did their Lubber-State Mankind bestride. 1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 153 Astride The lubber Power himself triumphant sits. 1832 S. Ferguson Forging of Anchor 57 The kraken's back,..a lubber anchorage for sudden shallow'd miles. 1874 Ld. Tennyson Merlin & Vivien (new ed.) in Wks. VI. 14 Then, narrow court and lubber King, farewell! 1875 R. Browning Inn Album i. 1 Lubber prose o'ersprawls And straddling stops the path from left to right. 1892 H. Caine Scapegoat (ed. 5) xxvii. 310 His thick lubber lips working visibly. C2. Special combinations. Also lubber fiend n., Lubberland n., lubber's hole n. lubber-grasshopper n. a name for two large-bodied clumsy insects of the U.S.; (a) Brachystola magna, of the western plains; (b) Romalea microptera, of the Gulf States. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Orthoptera > family Acrididae > romalea microptera (lumber-grasshopper) lubber-grasshopper1877 1877 Field & Forest 2 160 The ‘Lubber’ grasshopper [is the] large grasshopper Romalia microptera. 1885 Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) II. 194 The ‘Lubber Grasshopper’, or the Clumsy Locust, of the plains, Brachystola magna,..is..confined to the central portion of North America. 1962 Metcalf & Flint Destructive & Useful Insects (ed. 4) xii. 577 Large and small, lubberly grasshoppers often invade cotton from near-by waste lands and defoliate the plants... Lubber grasshoppers, differential grasshoppers. lubber-head n. a stupid person, a blockhead; hence lubber-headed adj. ( Eng. Dial. Dict.). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > stupid person, dolt, blockhead > [noun] asseOE sotc1000 beastc1225 long-ear?a1300 stock1303 buzzard1377 mis-feelinga1382 dasarta1400 stonea1400 dasiberd14.. dottlec1400 doddypoll1401 dastardc1440 dotterel1440 dullardc1440 wantwit1449 jobardc1475 nollc1475 assheada1500 mulea1500 dull-pate15.. peak1509 dulbert?a1513 doddy-patec1525 noddypolla1529 hammer-head1532 dull-head?1534 capon1542 dolt1543 blockhead1549 cod's head1549 mome1550 grout-head1551 gander1553 skit-brains?1553 blocka1556 calfa1556 tomfool1565 dunce1567 druggard1569 cobble1570 dummel1570 Essex calf1573 jolthead1573 hardhead1576 beetle-head1577 dor-head1577 groutnoll1578 grosshead1580 thickskin1582 noddyship?1589 jobbernowl1592 beetle-brain1593 Dorbel1593 oatmeal-groat1594 loggerhead1595 block-pate1598 cittern-head1598 noddypoop1598 dorbellist1599 numps1599 dor1601 stump1602 ram-head1605 look-like-a-goose1606 ruff1606 clod1607 turf1607 asinego1609 clot-poll1609 doddiea1611 druggle1611 duncecomb1612 ox-head1613 clod-polla1616 dulman1615 jolterhead1620 bullhead1624 dunderwhelpa1625 dunderhead1630 macaroona1631 clod-patea1635 clota1637 dildo1638 clot-pate1640 stupid1640 clod-head1644 stub1644 simpletonian1652 bottle-head1654 Bœotiana1657 vappe1657 lackwit1668 cudden1673 plant-animal1673 dolt-head1679 cabbage head1682 put1688 a piece of wood1691 ouphe1694 dunderpate1697 numbskull1697 leather-head1699 nocky1699 Tom Cony1699 mopus1700 bluff-head1703 clod skull1707 dunny1709 dowf1722 stupe1722 gamphrel1729 gobbin?1746 duncehead1749 half-wit1755 thick-skull1755 jackass1756 woollen-head1756 numbhead1757 beef-head1775 granny1776 stupid-head1792 stunpolla1794 timber-head1794 wether heada1796 dummy1796 noghead1800 staumrel1802 muttonhead1803 num1807 dummkopf1809 tumphya1813 cod's head and shoulders1820 stoopid1823 thick-head1824 gype1825 stob1825 stookiea1828 woodenhead1831 ning-nong1832 log-head1834 fat-head1835 dunderheadism1836 turnip1837 mudhead1838 donkey1840 stupex1843 cabbage1844 morepork1845 lubber-head1847 slowpoke1847 stupiditarian1850 pudding-head1851 cod's head and shoulders1852 putty head1853 moke1855 mullet-head1855 pothead1855 mug1857 thick1857 boodle1862 meathead1863 missing link1863 half-baked1866 lunk1867 turnip-head1869 rummy1872 pumpkin-head1876 tattie1879 chump1883 dully1883 cretin1884 lunkhead1884 mopstick1886 dumbhead1887 peanut head1891 pie-face1891 doughbakea1895 butt-head1896 pinhead1896 cheesehead1900 nyamps1900 box head1902 bonehead1903 chickenhead1903 thickwit1904 cluck1906 boob1907 John1908 mooch1910 nitwit1910 dikkop1913 goop1914 goofus1916 rumdum1916 bone dome1917 moron1917 oik1917 jabroni1919 dumb-bell1920 knob1920 goon1921 dimwit1922 ivory dome1923 stone jug1923 dingleberry1924 gimp1924 bird brain1926 jughead1926 cloth-head1927 dumb1928 gazook1928 mouldwarp1928 ding-dong1929 stupido1929 mook1930 sparrow-brain1930 knobhead1931 dip1932 drip1932 epsilon1932 bohunkus1933 Nimrod1933 dumbass1934 zombie1936 pea-brain1938 knot-head1940 schlump1941 jarhead1942 Joe Soap1943 knuckle-head1944 nong1944 lame-brain1945 gobshite1946 rock-head1947 potato head1948 jerko1949 turkey1951 momo1953 poop-head1955 a right one1958 bam1959 nong-nong1959 dickhead1960 dumbo1960 Herbert1960 lamer1961 bampot1962 dipshit1963 bamstick1965 doofus1965 dick1966 pillock1967 zipperhead1967 dipstick1968 thickie1968 poephol1969 yo-yo1970 doof1971 cockhead1972 nully1973 thicko1976 wazzock1976 motorhead1979 mouth-breather1979 no-brainer1979 jerkwad1980 woodentop1981 dickwad1983 dough ball1983 dickweed1984 bawheid1985 numpty1985 jerkweed1988 dick-sucker1989 knob-end1989 Muppet1989 dingus1997 dicksack1999 eight ball- 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I Lubber-head, a stupid fellow. 1849 Lady Wilde tr. W. Meinhold Sidonia the Sorceress II. 286 If..the thoughtless lubberhead, had not let the ring fall. lubber-lift v. (see quot. 1905). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [verb] > lift end of log lubber-lift1905 1801 Spirit of Farmers' Museum 85 Our Democrats begin to muster, Rolling around an anxious eye, Some ‘lubber lifting’ power to spy. 1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 42 Lubber lift, to raise the end of a log by means of a pry, and through the use of weight instead of strength. lubber's line n. ΚΠ 1858 Mercantile Marine Mag. 5 34 The lubber's line of a compass. lubber's mark n. ΚΠ a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 561/2 Lubber's Mark (Nautical). lubber's point n. Nautical a vertical line inside a compass-case, indicating the direction of the ship's head. ΚΠ 1840 H. Raper Pract. Navigation §142. 42 Care is taken to place the box so that lubber's point in the bowl, and the centre of the card, are in a line fore and aft, or parallel to the keel. But as lubber's point deviates a little from its proper position when the ship is heeled over, seamen do not implicitly depend upon it, as indeed the name implies. 1881 W. C. Russell Sailor's Sweetheart III. iv. 156 I..set the two compasses down with the lubber's points exactly parallel. † lubber-wort n. Obsolete the (imaginary) herb that produces laziness; also, a lubber. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > drugs having specific effect > [adjective] > producing laziness lubber-wort1547 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 1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. lxvi Whiles they do take theyr medecine [for the ‘fever lurden’] put no lubberwort into theyr potage. ?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 28 A loouely loober woorts, freklfaced, red heded, cleen trust in hiz dooblet. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2022). lubberv. Brit. /ˈlʌbə/, U.S. /ˈləbər/ Etymology: < lubber n. intransitive. To behave as a lubber; to loaf about; to navigate a boat like a lubber. †Also to lubber it. Now chiefly in present participle and in ˈlubbering adj. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [verb (intransitive)] > unskilfully lubber1530 the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > be slothful or lazy [verb (intransitive)] > idle or loaf luskc1330 lubber1530 to play the truant, -s1560 lazea1592 lazy1612 meecha1625 lounge1671 saunter1672 sloungea1682 slive1707 soss1711 lolpoop1722 muzz1758 shack1787 hulkc1793 creolize1802 maroon1808 shackle1809 sidle1828 slinge1834 sossle1837 loaf1838 mike1838 to sit around1844 hawm1847 wanton1847 sozzle1848 mooch1851 slosh1854 bum1857 flane1876 slummock1877 dead-beat1881 to lop about1881 scow1901 scowbank1901 stall1916 doss1937 plotz1941 lig1960 loon1969 the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [adjective] > idling or loafing loiteringa1533 truanting1635 sauntering1672 dawdling1773 shackling1788 lounging1789 louting1836 lubbering1837 loafing1857 mitching1857 scowbanking1868 shacking1881 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 615/2 I lubber, I playe the lubber, je loricarde. You lubber as well as any knave in this towne. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Loricarder, to luske, lowt, or lubber it; to loyter about like a masterlesse man. 1837 C. A. Wheelwright tr. Aristophanes Birds iii. iv By the brown owls I will no longer spare thee, Whom I behold thus slow and lubbering. 18.. H. E. P. Spofford Pilot's Wife He began to grumble about being ashamed to be seen lubbering round so. 1885 Cent. Mag. 30 742/1 As the..wind grew.., we soon found ourselves lubbering over the beautiful lake. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1362v.1530
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lubbern.

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lubberv.