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LAND LUBBER

Definition: LAND LUBBER

LAND LUBBER

1. A name given in contempt by sailors to a person who lives on land.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Synonyms within Context: LAND LUBBER

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Bungler

Land lubber; fresh water sailor, fair weather sailor; horse marine; fish out of water, ass in lion's skin,land lubber; fresh water sailor, fair weather sailor; horse marine; fish out of water, ass in lion's skin, jackdaw in peacock's feathers; quack; (deceiver); lord of misrule.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: LAND LUBBER

Specialty definitions using "LAND LUBBER": AUTOMBILIST. (references)
Etymologies containing "LAND LUBBER": landlubber. (references)

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Modern Translation: LAND LUBBER

Language Translations for "LAND LUBBER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Greek 

  

στεριανόσ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szárazföldi patkány (land-lubber). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

andlay ubberlay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: LAND LUBBER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: landlubber.

Words within the letters "a-b-b-d-e-l-l-n-r-u"

-2 letters: burnable, unbarbed.

-3 letters: allured, barbell, barbule, blander, blunder, blurbed, bundler, burbled, dabbler, drabble, durable, landler, launder, lurdane, nebular, rabbled, rubbled, rubella, rulable.

-4 letters: allude, allure, aludel, aulder, balder, balled, baller, bander, barbed, barbel, bauble, bedaub, belaud, blared, bubale, bulbar, bulbed, bulbel, bullae, bulled, bundle, burble, burden, burled, burned, dabber, dabble, darnel, dauber, dubber.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-b-d-e-l-l-n-r-u"
 

+1 letter: landlubbers.

 

+2 letters: landlubberly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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