lubberly adj.
stupid.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Bk of Compoundes folio 68: If you haue any sausie loughte, or loitryng lubber within your house [...] There is no pretier medicen for this, [...] then boxyng [...] perhaps this will not alter his lubberly condicions, yet I assure you, it wil for a time chaunge his knauishe complexion. | |
| Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie (1878) 17: To raise betimes the lubberlie, both snorting Hob and Margerie. | |
| Frier Bacon and Frier Bungay D3: Salue doctor Burden, this lubberly lurden, ill-shapte, and ill-faced. | |
| Wily Beguiled 15: churms.: Since when? wil.: Why since you were bumbasted, that your lubberly legges would not carrie your lobcocke bodie. | |
| Scourge of Folly 102: I cannot but weepe, To see thee looke so like a rotten Sheepe. Peace lowing Cow-babe, lubberly-hobberdy-hoy. | |
| ‘World runnes on Wheeles’ in Works (1869) II 241: Many times a rich lubberly Clowne [...] may be matched with a beautifull or proper wel qualified and nobly descended Gentlewoman. | |
| Juniper Lecture 97: I am ashamed to walk around with such a Lubberly Lout. | |
| (trans.) Gargantua and Pantagruel (1927) I Bk II 250: The foresaid lubberly fellows would not permit him the admittance into their society. | |
| ‘The New Knight Errant’ Songs and Poems 133: But Fortune that whore, still attended this Brewer, And did all his atchievements reward; And blindly did fling, on this lubberly thing, More honour, and made him a Lord. | |
| Soldier’s Fortune III i: He’s none of your overgrown, lubberly Flanders jades. | |
| ‘A Trip to Jamaica’ Writings (1704) 156: The Lubberly Whelp here says I talks like a Fool. | |
| Way of the World III iii: You think you’re in the country, where great lubberly brothers slabber and kiss one another when they meet. | |
| Female Tatler (1992) (94) 183: A great looberly fellow very rudely pushed me from the wall. | |
| York Spy 4: A Squadron of lubarly Country Carles. | |
| Laugh and Be Fat 121: When a Coward is Dubb’d for not Fighting but Feeding, / And Lubberly Brute is preferr’d for his Breeding. | |
| Spy on Mother Midnight I 28: Keep it in a due Position, and give it it’s proper Motion; and, I think, in that lyes the Beauty of the Thing, and the Pleasure of the Use of it; for what signifies a great lubberly Machine, which moves slowly. | |
| Reprisal II xiv: Here’s a lubberly dog, he dares not show his own face. | |
| Fool of Quality I 204: Jack was a lusty lubberly Boy, about ten Years of Age. | |
| Capuchin in Works (1799) II 391: Damn these bare-booted beggars! a set of lazy, lubberly —. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Adventures of Jonathan Corncob 190: Damnation to you [...] you lubberly rascal. | |
| ‘Bill Bobstay’ Collection of Songs II 124: Why the lubberly swabs, ev’ry fool can tell that. | |
| Salmagundi (1860) 259: You remind me of a lubberly Chinese who was flogged by an honest captain of my acquaintance. | |
| Diverting Hist. of John Bull and Brother Jonathan 65: She called him prating gabbler, liquorish glutton, lubberly lout, ruffian rogue, paltry customer, scoffing braggart, codshead booby, noddipeak simpleton, ninnihammer gnatsnapper, and various other names. | |
| Life in Paris 240: The lubberly sharper’s jib. | |
| Berks. Chron. 10 Feb. 2/2: The print [...] certainly gives a very ludicrous representation of the lubberly face of the ‘pet lamb’. | |
| Paul Periwinkle 24: Now, you lubberly swab! | |
| ‘Epistle from Joe Muggins’s Dog’ in Era (London) 16 June 5/3: What a lot of lubbarly fellars kan see in. knockin trumpry pinkushons off sticks, I karnt imagine. | |
| Sam Slick’s Wise Saws I 235: Little, chubby-cheeked, onmeanen, fat, lubberly, critters. | |
| Broad Arrow Jack 5: Come out, you lubberly son of a cook. | |
| Low-Life Deeps 216: He was a shock-headed, heavy-featured, lubberly youth of about fifteen. | |
| Mohawks II 181: Faith, were your principles as sound as your head you might be Treasurer now instead of that lubberly Norfolk squire. | |
| ‘The Rival Dolls’ in Mr Punch’s Model Music Hall 163: Your lubberly ways I objeck to. | |
| Boy’s Own Paper 10 Nov. 88: ‘You lubberly son of a swab,’ roared the chef. | |
| Cappy Ricks 21: ‘Well I do declare!’ the skipper cried. ‘If that lubberly boy hasn’t got some sort of a ticket!’. | |
| Yorks. Eve. Post 17 Oct. 5/2: Teetotalers is always half-lubberly men with pimples dotting their dials. | |
| Dark Hazard (1934) 106: I don’t like those big, lubberly dogs. | |
| Birmingham Dly Post 8 Dec. 6/7: That great lubberly boy Bo-Bo. | |
| Western Dly Press (Bristol) 20 Jan. 3/6: An awkward, lubberly recruit. |