lubber.
A clumsy or lazy person.
Meaning & usage
A clumsy or lazy person.
An inexperienced or novice sailor; a landlubber.
An eastern lubber grasshopper (Romalea microptera).
Alteration of rubber.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English, perhaps from Old French lobeor (“swindler”), from Old French lober to mock, to jeer, or of Scandinavian origin, compare dialectal Swedish lubber. The grasshopper was likely so called after sense 1 (“a clumsy or lazy person”).
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.