Meaning of lubber | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A clumsy or lazy person.
   archaic
2. An inexperienced or novice sailor; a landlubber.
3. An eastern lubber grasshopper (Romalea microptera).
   Southern-US
4. Alteration of rubber.
   South-Asia

Equivalents

Examples

“[T]hree of the boys, of whom Mr. Hector was sometimes one, used to come in the morning as his humble attendants, and carry him [Johnson] to school. […] The purfly, sand-blind lubber and blubber, with his open mouth, and face of bruised honeycomb; yet already dominant, imperial, irresistible!”

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