lubber

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A clumsy or lazy person. archaic
    — [T]hree of the boys, of whom Mr. Hector was sometimes one, used to come in the morning as his humble attendants, and carry him [Johnson] to school. […] The purfly, sand-blind lubber and blubber, with his open mouth, and face of bruised honeycomb; yet already dominant, imperial, irresistible!
  2. An inexperienced or novice sailor; a landlubber.
  3. An eastern lubber grasshopper (Romalea microptera). Southern-US
  4. Alteration of rubber. South-Asia

词形变化

lubbers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
abbey-lubber landlubber lubber fiend lubberland lubberlike lubber line lubberly lubber's hole sealubber

词源

From Middle English, perhaps from Old French lobeor (“swindler”), or of Scandinavian origin, compare dialectal Swedish lubber. The grasshopper was likely so called after sense 1 (“a clumsy or lazy person”).
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