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lubber (iou)



lubber noun, adjective, & verb. LME.
[Perh. from Old French lobeor swindler, parasite, from lober deceive, sponge on, mock (perh. from Frankish lobon praise) with assim. in sense to LOB noun1.]
A. noun.
A big, clumsy, esp. idle person; a lout. Formerly also, a drudge. arch. & dial. LME.
Nautical. A clumsy sailor; a person not used or suited to sea life. Cf. LANDLUBBER. L16.
Comb.: lubber fiend a beneficent goblin supposed to perform chores etc. round the house or farm at night; lubber-grasshopper either of two large clumsy grasshoppers of the southern US, Brachystola magna and Romalea microptera; Lubberland an imaginary land of idleness and plenty; lubber line, lubber mark, lubber point Nautical a vertical line marked on a compass, indicating a ship's forward direction; lubber's hole Nautical a hole in the platform of a ship's top, used to avoid climbing the futtock shrouds.
b. attrib. or as adjective. Clumsy, stupid; loutish. M16.
C. verb intrans. Behave as a lubber; loaf about; Nautical navigate a boat like a lubber. M16.
lubberlike adjective of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lubber L16.