lubber
Meanings
Plural: lubbers
Noun
- an awkward stupid person
- an inexperienced sailor; a sailor on the first voyage
- A clumsy or lazy person.
- An inexperienced or novice sailor; a landlubber.
- An eastern lubber grasshopper (Romalea microptera).
Origin / Etymology
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”).
Synonyms
alcatote, auf, blunderer, blunderhead, botcher, bumbler, bungler, butterfingers, chucklehead, clod, clodhopper, dauber, duffer, dumbshit, fuckup, fumblefingers, fumbler, galoot, gaum, gawk, gobaloon, goon, gype, klutz, landlubber, landsman, lomperd, looby, lout, lubber, lummox, lump, lumpkin, maladroit, mess-up, messup, muff, oaf, palooka, peabrain, pisher, sad sack, schlemiel, schmuck, screwup, shit bird, slangrill, spaz, stumblebum, trapes, turkey, weapon, yutz
Scrabble Score: 10
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