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lub⋅ber

  [luhb-er]
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–noun
1. a big, clumsy, stupid person; lout.
2. an awkward or unskilled sailor; landlubber.
–adjective
3. clumsy; stupid; lubberly.
–verb (used without object)
4. to behave like a lubber, esp. in the handling of a boat.
Origin:
1325–75; ME lobre. See lob 1 , -er 1
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lub·ber   (lŭb'ər)   
n.  

  1. A clumsy person.

  2. An inexperienced sailor; a landlubber.


[Middle English lobur, lazy lout; akin to lob, lout; see lob.]
lub'ber·ly adv. & adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

lubber 
1362, "big, clumsy, stupid fellow who lives in idleness," from lobre, earlier lobi "lazy lout," related to lob, and probably of Scand. origin. A sailors' word since 16c. (cf. landlubber), but earliest use was of lazy monks (cf. abbey-lubber). Cf. also lubberwort, the name of the mythical herb that produces laziness (1547); and Lubberland "imaginary land of plenty without work" (1598).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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