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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Like a lubber; clumsy; awkward.
  2. Clumsily; awkwardly.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Clumsy and stupid; resembling a lubber (an inexperienced person).
  2. adj. Lacking in seamanship; of or suitable to a landlubber who is new to being at sea and unfamiliar with the ways of a sailor.
  3. adv. In the manner of a landlubber.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Like a lubber; clumsy.
  2. adv. Clumsily; awkwardly.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. inexperienced in seamanship
  2. adj. clumsy and unskilled

Etymologies

  1. lubber +‎ -ly (Wiktionary)

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  • fbharjo Isn't that lubberly? Jul 15, 2011

  • yarb The household consisted of three servants: a lubberly ostler, a young Galician chambermaid, and myself.

    - Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 10 ch. 10 Oct 9, 2008

  • chained_bear "...your handling of the sheets to be lubberly and unnavylike." --Captain Aubrey, "Master and Commander" Feb 20, 2007

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