Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the ways of a landlubber; awkward on board ship from lack of experience.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Like a landlubber: inexperienced in seamanshap.
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- adjective Like a
landlubber .
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- adjective inexperienced in seamanship
Etymologies
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Examples
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Or they asserted that all those landlubberly creatures had walked dry-shod across a natural bridge or had swum short distances between stepping-stones, and that one such formation or another had since disappeared beneath the waves.
Galapagos Vonnegut, Kurt 1985
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In a good, old landlubberly manner we hitched Gadabout to a tree and waited to see if the rising tide would make a way for us.
Virginia: the Old Dominion Cortelle Hutchins
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Mr. Todd, would visit the bark and offer interfering suggestions, after the manner of captains, which only embarrassed the officers; and Mr. Todd would take advantage of these occasions to make landlubberly comments and show a sad ignorance of things nautical.
"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888
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The landlubberly sport coat [above, center], meanwhile, originally derived from the tweedy, robust coats worn while assisting in the untimely end of feathered or furry creatures.
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The landlubberly sport coat [above, center], meanwhile, originally derived from the tweedy, robust coats worn while assisting in the untimely end of feathered or furry creatures.
fbharjo commented on the word landlubberly
oldlandishly new-at-sea
July 16, 2011