Usually means: Inexperienced sailor, clumsy at sea.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. lubber: Merriam-Webster
  2. lubber: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lubber: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lubber: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lubber: Vocabulary.com
  6. Lubber: Wordnik
  7. lubber: Wiktionary
  8. lubber: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. lubber: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. lubber: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Lubber, lubber: Dictionary.com
  12. lubber: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Lubber: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Lubber: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. lubber: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. lubber: Rhymezone
  17. Lubber: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. lubber: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. LUBBER: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  20. Lubber: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. lubber: FreeDictionary.org
  22. lubber: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. lubber: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. lubber: Wordnik

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. lubber: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lubber: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lubber, lubber: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. lubber: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (lubber)

▸ noun:  (archaic) A clumsy or lazy person.
▸ noun:  (nautical) An inexperienced or novice sailor; a landlubber.
▸ noun:  (Southern US) Common name for the eastern lubber grasshopper (Romalea microptera), likely after "a clumsy or lazy person"

Similar:
lout, stumblebum, oaf, klutz, lummox, goon, lump, clod, landsman, landlubber, more...

Opposite:
seafarer, sailor, mariner

Types:
landlubber, seadog, saltwater sailor, landshark, landloper, more...

Phrases:
lubber line, lubber grasshopper, land lubber, lubber fiend, abbey lubber, more...

Adjectives:
land, great, lazy, headed, such, big, infernal, poor, old, huge, young
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Similar:
lout, stumblebum, oaf, klutz, lummox, goon, lump, clod, landsman, landlubber, more...

Opposite:
seafarer, sailor, mariner

Types:
landlubber, seadog, saltwater sailor, landshark, landloper, more...

Phrases:
lubber line, lubber grasshopper, land lubber, lubber fiend, abbey lubber, lubber lines, more...

Adjectives:
land, great, lazy, headed, such, big, infernal, poor, old, huge, young



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