Word.ws English Dictionary

landlubbing

landlubbing adjective: unfamiliar with the sea or seamanship.

Adjective

landlubbing (not comparable)

  1. (derogatory) Unfamiliar with the sea or seamanship.
    • Some sweet motion of the sea
      And feathered form the Chickadee
      Twenty-seven miles from land
      it makes landlubbing mind expand.1983 August 20, “Mousie Mousie Wildflower (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 6, page 18

Origin of landlubbing

Back-formation from landlubber, using -ing.

Questions about landlubbing

What does landlubbing mean?
Landlubbing means unfamiliar with the sea or seamanship.
What part of speech is landlubbing?
Landlubbing is an adjective.

Words near landlubbing in the dictionary

  1. landlubber
  2. landlubberish
  3. landlubberliness
  4. landlubberly
  5. landlubbers
  6. landlubbing
  7. landly
  8. landman
  9. Landmans
  10. landmark
  11. landmark case

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: landlubbing (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “landlubbing.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/landlubbing. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.