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English
Etymology
lubber + -ly
Adjective
lubberly (comparative more lubberly, superlative most lubberly)
- Clumsy and stupid; resembling a lubber (an inexperienced person).
c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :a great lubberly boy
- 1693, Thomas Urquhart, translation of Gargantua by Rabelais, Chapter XX:
- Ponocrates and Eudemon burst out in a laughing so heartily, that they had almost split with it, and given up the ghost, in rendering their souls to God: even just as Crassus did, seeing a lubberly ass eat thistles;
- Lacking in seamanship; of or suitable to a landlubber who is new to being at sea and unfamiliar with the ways of a sailor.
1848, James Fenimore Cooper, “Captain Spike, Or The Islets of the Gulf”, in Bentley's Miscellany, page 19:"Do not use such a lubberly expression, my dear Rose, if you respect your father's profession. On a vessel is a new-fangled Americanism, that is neither fish, flesh, nor red-herring, as we sailors say,— neither English nor Greek."
Translations
Adverb
lubberly (comparative more lubberly, superlative most lubberly)
- In the manner of a landlubber.
1839, Matthew Henry Barker, Hamilton King, page 105:I'm not ignorant of these matters, having been many years at sea—and seamen, you must know, are curious in knots; I cannot endure to see anything done lubberly.