[ US /ˈɫəbɝ/ ]
[ UK /lˈʌbɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. an inexperienced sailor; a sailor on the first voyage
  2. an awkward stupid person
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How To Use lubber In A Sentence

  • They are very much secluded from the rest of Chiloe, and have scarcely any sort of commerce, except sometimes in a little oil, which they get from seal-blubber. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
  • Trey listened with a patient ear, only making distance with the receiver when she whined or couldn't make out her blubbering.
  • They are knee-deep in gelid gray water, with food and clothing, skinned seagulls and whale blubber, sheepskins and oilskins - the ancient flotsam of death at sea - sloshing about them.
  • Clubbers bopped on the open air, split-level dance floor until the early hours of the morning.
  • The baby whale develops a thick layer of blubber to protect it from the cold sea.
  • Friars Cowle, which was so snottie and greazie, that good store of kitchin stuffe might have beene boiled out of it; as also a foule slovenly Trusse or halfe doublet, all baudied with bowsing, fat greazie lubberly sweating, and other drudgeries in the Convent The Decameron
  • Maybe then I'll lose some of my blubber, 'cause really you didn't have much to lose, sweet cheeks.
  • No, not fat as in gross blubber bouncing around my waist and stuff; it's just that I think I'm about a few pounds heavier than I was when I was really fit in first year.
  • Or they asserted that all those landlubberly creatures had walked dry-shod across a natural bridge or had swum short distances between stepping-stones, and that one such formation or another had since disappeared beneath the waves. Galapagos
  • The UK has become a vast blubber mountain. The Sun
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