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Meaning of land lover | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Eggcorn of landlubber.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see land, lover.

Examples

“For land lovers, the Pirates World and Treasure Museum features exhibits on the islands’ history and their pirates past.”
“A crowd of Boy Scouts, other children and their parents roamed around the sea base grounds Saturday, checking out everything the waterfront facility has to offer, on and off the water. The land lovers took part in team building games on the grass and spun a wheel for prizes.”
“Making sure there are no sharks in the water?: The land lover spent a lot of time kicking water around.”
“They are billed as an ideal place for “messing around in boats”, but the Norfolk Broads have become the focus of an increasingly bitter and divisive battle between boat dwellers and land lovers.”
“I end up stepping on a sea urchin, and it’s stinging like hell. He’s like, “Hey, you know, you’re supposed to piss on your foot.” I’m like, “Haha, funny island boy. You’re not gonna trick the land lover into peeing on my own foot.””
““Immense pressure and frigid temperatures, while insurmountable obstacles to land lovers like humans, allow some animals to have very slow metabolisms and the ability to reach gargantuan proportions,” the Schmidt Ocean Institute explained in a post on Facebook.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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