Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stupid, sluggish, inactive person; a lob.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Low A dull, sluggish person; a lubber; a lob.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun dated A dull,
sluggish person; alubber ; alob .
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Examples
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May I never be damned if I was not so much a lobcock as to believe they had been immortal, like so many fine angels.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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May I never be damned if I was not so much a lobcock as to believe they had been immortal, like so many fine angels.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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II. i.16 (22,7) [lob of spirits] _Lob_, _lubber_, _looby_, _lobcock_, all denote both inactivity of body and dulness of mind.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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Again at the lobby (like a lobcock) [8] of the House of Commons, about your Irish yarn, and again put off till Friday; and I and Patrick went into the City by water, where I dined, and then I went to the auction of Charles
The Journal to Stella Jonathan Swift 1706
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May I never be damned if I was not so much a lobcock as to believe they had been immortal, like so many fine angels.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
chained_bear commented on the word lobcock
"...eventually I carried my point, though not without the use of some very warm expressions, such as the nautical lobcock and bugger.'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Thirteen Gun Salute, 97
March 3, 2008
yarb commented on the word lobcock
To dye bleeding is all one as if a man should dye pissing. Good drink makes good bloud, so that pisse is nothing but bloud vnder age. Seneca and Lucan were lobcockes to choose that death of all other: a pigge or a hogge or anie edible brute beast a cooke or a butcher deales vpon, dyes bleeding. To dye with a pricke, wherewith the faintest hearted woman vnder heauen would not be kild, O God it is infamous.
- Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller, 1594
April 14, 2010