Lubber

Definition: Lubber

Lubber

Noun

1. An awkward stupid person.

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "lubber" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references)

Etymology: Lubber \Lub"ber\, noun. [Compare to dial. Swedish lubber. See Looby, Lob.]. (references)

Literature

Slang in 1811

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

Synonyms: Lubber

Bungler

No conjurer, flat, muff, slow coach, looby, lubber, swab; clod, yokel, awkward squad, blanc-bec; galoot.

Noun: bungler; blunderer, blunderhead; marplot, fumbler, lubber, duffer, dauber, stick; bad hand, poor hand, poor shot; butterfingers.

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.

Fool

Greenhorn; (dupe); dunce; (ignoramus); lubber; (bungler); madman.

Ignoramus

Lubber; (bungler); fool; pedant.

Inactivity

Idler, drone, droil, dawdle, mopus; do-little faineant, dummy, sleeping partner; afternoon farmer; truant; (runaway) : bummer, loafer, goldbrick, goldbicker, lounger, lazzarone; lubber, lubbard; slow coach; (slow.); opium eater, lotus eater; slug; lag, sluggard, slugabed; slumberer, dormouse, marmot; waiter on Providence, fruges consumere natus.

Crosswords: Lubber

Expressions using "lubber": Land lubber ♦ Lubber grasshopper ♦ lubber line ♦ lubber mark. Additional references.

Beginning with "lubber": lubber-head.

Ending with "lubber": land-lubber.

Albanian

njeri kaba (bull in a china shop, hulk), gallof. (various references)

Arabic 

‏ملاح غير بارع, ‏شخص ضخم (big fat fellow), ‏شخص أخرق (bear, dub, gawky, lout, lummox, slouch). (various references)

Bulgarian 

дървеняк (ape, ape-man, bumpkin, loon, lubber-head, lug, lummox, numskull, pudding-head, zombie). (various references)

Czech

nemotora (gawk, lump, muff), klacek (bludgeon, bully, club, cudgel, hobbledehoy, lout, stick). (various references)

French

personne maladroit, personne grosse, marin incompétent. (various references)

Greek 

κρεμανταλάσ (gawk), μπουνταλάσ (punch), αγροίκοσ και βλαξ. (various references)

Hebrew 

�'ולם (awkward person, boor, clod, dummy, embryo, ignoramus, larva, lummox, lunkhead, oaf, pupa, robot). (various references)

Hungarian

nehézkes (backward, blunt, cumbersome, cumbrous, difficult, doltish, dull, fumbling, hulking, laborious, languid, logy, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, pokey, rugged, slouch, sluggish, stiff, stodgy, stogy, sullen, uneasy), faragatlan fickó (lout). (various references)

Italian

zoticone (boor, bumpkin, clodhopper, lout, oaf). (various references)

Manx

thoot (boob, bumpkin, cry baby, idiot, namby-pamby, oaf, simpleton). (various references)

Pig Latin

ubberlay.(various references)

Portuguese

rústico (backwoods, boor, boorish, bumbling, bumpkin, chuff, churl, churlish, cloddish, clodhopper, clown, countrified, lob, loutish, low-bred, mucker, peasant, rude, rural, rustic, rustical, uncouth, underbred, yokel). (various references)

Romanian

stângaci (artless, awkward, awkwardly, bearish, clumsy, gawky, hulking, left handed, left-handed man, loose, lubberly, lumpish, maladroit, numb hand, splay, uncouth, uncouthly, ungainly, unskilful, unskilfully, unwieldy), neîndemânare (awkwardness, clumsiness, fumbling, left-handedness, lubberliness, lumpishness, rawness). (various references)

Russian 

увалень (deadhead, dub, goof, laggard, lummox, swabber), неуклюжий человек (lout), неопытный моряк (landsman). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nezgrapna osoba, šmokljan (ninny-hammer). (various references)

Swedish

luns, landkrabba (landlubber, landsman), tölp (boor, churl, clod, clodhopper, clodpoll, clown, gawk, lout, lummox, yokel), drummel (ape, blunderhead, boob, booby, churl, clod, clodpoll, clown, gawk, hobbledehoy, lout, lummox, oaf, swab). (various references)

Thai

คนทึ่มซึ่งมีร่างใหญ่. (various references)

Turkish

hantal (bulky, chubby, clumsy, cumbersome, cumbrous, elephantine, gross, hulking, hulky, loutish, lumbering, lumpish, plodding, ponderous, rude, sesquipedalian, soggy, stodgy, ungainly, ungraceful, unwieldy, yahoo), hödük (boor, boorish, bumpkin, churl, clodhopper, clown, clumsy, country bumpkin, dry stick, dull stick, hayseed, Hick, oaf, roughneck, rube, ruffian, rustic, stick, yob, yokel), beceriksiz (awkward, bungler, bungling, clumsy, Duff, duffer, feckless, flat-footed, fumbling, gauche, gawky, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-handed, helpless, impractical, inapt, incompetent, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inept, inexpert, left handed, maladroit, manque, ne'er do well, never-do-well, oaf, oafish, resourceless, rude, shiftless, slouch, unaccomplished, unhandy, unskilful, untalented). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thuỷ thủ thiếu kinh nghiệm, người vụng về (booby, bumpkin, butter-fingers, fumbler, lout, muff, swabber, swobber), người chậm chạp (laggard, muff, slowcoach). (various references)

Welsh

lleban (clown), llabwst (lout). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "lubber": lubberliness, lubberlinesses, lubberly, lubbers. (additional references)

Words ending with "lubber": blubber, clubber, flubber, landlubber, nightclubber, slubber. (additional references)

Words containing "lubber": blubbered, blubbering, blubbers, blubbery, clubbers, flubbers, landlubberliness, landlubberlinesses, landlubberly, landlubbers, nightclubbers, slubbered, slubbering, slubbers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Lubber" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: flubber, glubber, hubber, iubere, Labbe, luba, lubar, lubb, Lubbard, Lubbeek, lubei, luber, lubet, lubey, Lubkert, Lubner, lubr, pubber. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: burble, rubble.

-1 letter: bluer, blurb, ruble.

-2 letters: bleb, blub, blue, blur, bulb, burl, lube, lure, rube, rule.

-3 letters: bel, bub, bur, ebb, leu, reb, rub, rue, urb.

-4 letters: be, el, er, re.

+1 letter: barbule, blubber, blurbed, bubbler, bumbler, burbled, burbler, burbles, clubber, flubber, lubbers, rubbled, rubbles, slubber.

+2 letters: barbules, belabour, blubbers, blubbery, bluebird, bubblers, bubblier, bumblers, burblers, burblier, burnable, clubbers, clubbier, curbable, flubbers, lubberly, nubblier, quibbler, rubblier, slubbers.

+3 letters: belabours, blubbered, bluebeard, blueberry, bluebirds, burbliest, burnables, quibblers, rubbliest, slubbered, squabbler, stubblier.

+4 letters: belaboured, blubbering, bluebeards, butterball, landlubber, numberable, rebuttable, rubberlike, scrubbable, slubbering, squabblers, subproblem, unbearable, unbearably, unburnable.