Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The land of Cock-aigne.
- n. The place of future existence of lubbers: a kind of nautical purgatory.
Examples
“It may seem to us an idle lubberland, a paradise of do-nothings; -- Mr. Ruskin sees in it only a "dim, stupid, serene, leguminous enjoyment.”
“Emerge from the lubberland of dreams, and be swift in attendance upon a wight whose wandering star has led him to your hospitable gate.”
“On the contrary, nothing so facile, pellucid, pleasant to read had appeared in modern literature -- a poetic lubberland, a "clear, unwrinkled song.”
“Elation at mere existence, pure cosmic emotion and delight, would, it seems to me, quench all interest in those speculations, if the world were nothing but a lubberland of happiness already.”
“Truth I cried, though the heavens crush me for following her; no falsehood! though a whole celestial lubberland were the price of apostacy.”
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Wunderkammer
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thaumazein, anacampserote, cledonism, mirabile dictu, limen, sough, amaranthine, anamorphosis, lyribliring, lubberland, luciferous, madstone and 31 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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Displacemattes
Mysterious places and lands I ought to visit...
antichthon, lubberland, flat earth, shangri-la, dystopia, peristalith, htrae, phaeton, pop star, asgard, melmac, annwn and 78 more...
Tweets
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whichbe "There is no law nor lawyer's fees
All men are free from fury,
For ev'ry one do's what he please,
Without a judge or jury:
The summer-time is warm they say,
The winter's ne'er the colder,
They have no landlords' rent to pay
Each man is a free-holder."
-- An Invitation To Lubberland May 25, 2008
whichbe A mythical paradise reserved for those who are lazy. May 14, 2008