lubbard

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"Ha! the lubbard oafs.

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  1. Same as lubber. Thou slovenly lubberd, and toyish fellow, what idle toyes goest thou fantasticating! Benvenuto, Passengers' Dialogues (1612). It was now the part of the huge porter to step forward; but the lubbard was … overwhelmed with confusion of spirit. Scott, Kenilworth, xxx.
  2. Lubberly. Conscious how much the hand Of lubbard Labour needs his watchful eye. Cowper, Task, iii. 400.

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  • "Ha! the lubbard oafs. —  Grisly Grisell
  • _I'll hew thy head_, _thou lubbard_, _off_, —  A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow
  • Commissary has known him as an indigent, good-for-nothing lubbard who has begged his way in the streets of Paris ever since he was released from gaol some months ago, after he had served a term for larceny. —  The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
  • Goliath and of another lubbard, who had more fingers in his hand, and more inches to his stature, than ought to belong to an honest man, and who was slain by a nephew of good King David; and of many others whom I do not remember; nevertheless, they were all Philistines of gigantic stature. —  Myths and Marvels of Astronomy
  • I need only instance out of Holy Writ, the celebrated downfall of Goliah, and of another lubbard, who had more fingers to his hand, and more inches to his stature, than ought to belong to an honest man, and who was slain by a nephew of good King —  Peveril of the Peak
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  1. Formerly also lubberd; a variant, with substituted suffix -ard, of lubber.
 

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