Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having the ways of a landlubber; awkward on board ship from lack of experience.
Wiktionary
- adj. Like a landlubber.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Like a landlubber: inexperienced in seamanshap.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. inexperienced in seamanship
Etymologies
- landlubber + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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.”
“In a good, old landlubberly manner we hitched Gadabout to a tree and waited to see if the rising tide would make a way for us.”
“Mr. Todd, would visit the bark and offer interfering suggestions, after the manner of captains, which only embarrassed the officers; and Mr. Todd would take advantage of these occasions to make landlubberly comments and show a sad ignorance of things nautical.”
“The landlubberly sport coat [above, center], meanwhile, originally derived from the tweedy, robust coats worn while assisting in the untimely end of feathered or furry creatures.”
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land phrases/words
how land is used
land abutment, land-admiral, land-agency, land-agent, land-animal, land-arch, land army, land-base, land-based, land-bat, land-battery, land-battle and 371 more...
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please pass the ly
Words that end in -ly that are nouns.
Please do not include words with double ll, for instance: ally, bully, belly; or words that can also be adjectives, for instance: elderly, melancholy.contumely, family, supply, reply, anomaly, assembly, doily, fly, homily, lily, monopoly, panoply and 20 more...
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