Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Clumsily; awkwardly.
  • Like a lubber; clumsy; awkward.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb Clumsily; awkwardly.
  • adjective Like a lubber; clumsy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective inexperienced in seamanship
  • adjective clumsy and unskilled

Etymologies

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lubber +‎ -ly

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

    February 21, 2007

  • 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

    October 10, 2008

  • Isn't that lubberly?

    July 16, 2011