lubberly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.19 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Clumsy and stupid; resembling a lubber (an inexperienced person).
adj
Lacking in seamanship; of or suitable to a landlubber who is new to being at sea and unfamiliar with the ways of a sailor.
adv
In the manner of a landlubber.
Example Sentences
- "a great lubberly boy"
- "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;"
- ""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.""
- "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."
Etymology
From lubber + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more lubberly (comparative)
most lubberly (superlative)