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Lubber (A)

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A dolt. Seamen call an awkward sailor a land-lubber. A variant of “looby” (Welsh, llob, with a diminutive, “somewhat of a dunce or dolt.”)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Lower City (The)
Lower Empire
Lower your Sail
Lowlanders of Attica
Lowndean Professor (Cambridge University)
Loy
Loyal
Loys [lo-is]
Luath
Lubber (A)
Lubber’s Hole
Lubberkin or Lubrican. (Irish, Lobaircin or Leprechaun.)
Lubins
Lucasian Professor
Lucasta
Luce
Luce
Lucia di Lammermoor
Lucian
Lucifer