LUBBER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lubber mean? 

• LUBBER (noun)
  The noun LUBBER has 2 senses:

1. an awkward stupid person

2. an inexperienced sailor; a sailor on the first voyage

  Familiarity information: LUBBER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LUBBER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An awkward stupid person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

clod; gawk; goon; lout; lubber; lummox; lump; oaf; stumblebum

Hypernyms ("lubber" is a kind of...):

clumsy person (a person with poor motor coordination)

Derivation:

lubberly (clumsy and unskilled)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An inexperienced sailor; a sailor on the first voyage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

landlubber; landsman; lubber

Hypernyms ("lubber" is a kind of...):

beginner; initiate; novice; tiro; tyro (someone new to a field or activity)

Derivation:

lubberly (inexperienced in seamanship)

 Context examples 

“I won't eat you. Hand it over, lubber. I know the rules, I do; I won't hurt a depytation.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Fantastic as the situation was,—a land-lubber second in command,—I was, nevertheless, carrying it off well; and during that brief time I was proud of myself, and I grew to love the heave and roll of the Ghost under my feet as she wallowed north and west through the tropic sea to the islet where we filled our water-casks.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The lubbers is going about to get the wind of me this blessed moment; lubbers as couldn't keep what they got, and want to nail what is another's.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Why, I ain't sich an infernal lubber after all.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“You'll all swing now, I reckon. What soft-headed lubber had a Bible?”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Get back to your place for a lubber, Tom.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“Search him, some of you shirking lubbers, and the rest of you aloft and get the chest,” he cried.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“That's your seven hundred thousand pounds, is it? You're the man for bargains, ain't you? You're him that never bungled nothing, you wooden-headed lubber!”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)