Lubberly

Quick meaning: Lubberly is an adjective meaning Clumsy and stupid; resembling a lubber (an inexperienced person).

Meaning

Clumsy and stupid; resembling a lubber (an inexperienced person).

More Meanings

1. Lacking in seamanship; of or suitable to a landlubber who is new to being at sea and unfamiliar with the ways of a sailor.
2. In the manner of a landlubber.

Example Sentences

a great lubberly boy

I'm not ignorant of these matters, having been many years at sea—and seamen, you must know, are curious in knots; I cannot endure to see anything done lubberly.

Ponocrates and Eudemon burst out in a laughing so heartily, that they had almost split with it, and given up the ghost, in rendering their souls to God: even just as Crassus did, seeing a lubberly ass eat thistles;

"Do not use such a lubberly expression, my dear Rose, if you respect your father's profession. On a vessel is a new-fangled Americanism, that is neither fish, flesh, nor red-herring, as we sailors say,— neither English nor Greek."

Synonyms for lubberly

Depending on context, synonyms include unskilled, landlubberly, unseamanlike.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include landlubberly, unskilled, unseamanlike, lubberlike, lubbard, lumbering.

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