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US
/ˈɫəbɝ/
]
[ UK /lˈʌbɐ/ ]
[ UK /lˈʌbɐ/ ]
NOUN
- an inexperienced sailor; a sailor on the first voyage
- an awkward stupid person
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