lubber means A clumsy or lazy person. Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 67 out of 100.
lubber is pronounced /ˈlʌbə(ɹ)/.
Etymology
From Middle English, perhaps from Old French lobeor (“swindler”), or of Scandinavian origin, compare dialectal Swedish lubber. The grasshopper was likely so called after sense 1 (“a clumsy or lazy person”).
noun
- A clumsy or lazy person.“[T]hree of the boys, of whom Mr. Hector was sometimes one, used to come in the morning as his humble attendants, and carry him [Johnson] to school. […] The purfly, sand-blind lubber and blubber, with his open mouth, and face of bruised honeycomb; yet already dominant, imperial, irresistible!”
- An inexperienced or novice sailor; a landlubber.
- An eastern lubber grasshopper (Romalea microptera).
- Alteration of rubber.