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lubbers

lubbers is the plural of lubber.

Meaning of lubber

Noun

lubber (plural lubbers)

  1. (archaic) A clumsy or lazy person.
    • [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!1832 May, Thomas Carlyle, “[James] Boswell’s Life of [Samuel] Johnson”, in R[alph] W[aldo] E[merson], editor, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: […], volume III, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and...
  2. An inexperienced or novice sailor; a landlubber.
  3. (Southern US) An eastern lubber grasshopper (Romalea microptera).
  4. (South-Asia) Alteration of rubber.

Questions about lubbers

What is lubbers the plural of?
Lubbers is the plural of lubber.

Words near lubbers in the dictionary

  1. lubberland
  2. lubberlands
  3. lubberlike
  4. lubberliness
  5. lubberly
  6. lubbers
  7. Lubbes
  8. lubblier
  9. lubbliest
  10. lubbly
  11. Lubbock

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