lubberlikeadj.adv.
/ˈlʌbəlʌɪk/, U.S. /ˈləbərˌlaɪk/ A. adj.
Of, pertaining to or characteristic of a lubber.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > clumsy stupidity, oafishness > [adjective]
heavy1340
plump1481
chubbish1566
lubberlike1572
lubberly1580
oafish1682
chubbed1702
slobbish1833
joulter1854
landlubberly1860
slobby1872
the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [adjective] > coarse
agrest?1440
robust1511
roynish1570
sowish1570
lubberlike1572
lubberly1580
ordinarya1586
roborean1656
porcine1660
coarse1680
crude1722
low1725
piggish1742
coarse-graineda1774
crass1861
coarse-fibred1872
barnyard1895
farmyard1911
rough as guts1919
the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > clumsy or awkward
stubblea1300
lubber?1515
awkward1530
unwieldy1530
lubberlike1572
unwieldsome1579
lubberly1580
looby1582
wieldy1588
clumsy1597
ungainly1611
unqueme1611
untowardly1611
clouter-likea1624
hip-shot1642
loobish1648
loobily1655
bumble-arsed1661
clouterly1675
lubbard1679
fumbling1681
sinistrousa1682
maladroit1685
shammockinga1704
ungain1710
splay-footed1716
gawky1759
hobbledehoyish1812
uncouthly1821
nunting1836
shammocky1841
numb1854
awkwardish1860
slummocky?1861
numb-footed1867
gawkish1876
flat-footed1899
brontosaurian1909
shamblya1937
slew-foot1945
ham-footed1960
klutzy1961
dorkus1979
society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [adjective] > characteristic of (good) sailor > not
unseamanlike1726
unnautical1780
lubberly1795
unsailorlike1841
lubberlike1851
unsailorly1883
land-lubbing1885
1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) Lubberlike, vnhandsome or lowtishe, secors.
1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike Ded. sig. ¶4v Sheepes skinnes cast ouer their lubberlike shoulders.
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xiii. 66 We did not notice the jeering glances of the passengers, a lubber-like assembly.
B. adv.
After the manner of a lubber.
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the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adverb] > clumsily or awkwardly
unhagherlyc1175
unslyly?a1400
roughc1400
unslya1425
rudelyc1425
unhandsomely1545
grosslyc1550
untowardly?1550
botcherly?1566
bungerly1574
lubberlike1575
lumpishly1583
clouterly1593
lubberly1594
foggily1599
awkly1603
unwieldilyc1610
cumbersomely1611
uneasily1611
sinisterly1628
left-handedly1648
ungainlya1661
awkwardly1663
clumsily1691
uncleverly1697
wrong1727
unwieldly1793
gawkily1811
maladroitly1827
undexterously1848
flat-footedly1886
ham-fistedly1964
ham-handedly1964
1575 G. Gascoigne Flowers in Posies 117 Though you thinke it lubberlike to leese Yet shoulde you lende that one halfe of your cote.
a1635 ‘T. Randall’ in Ann. Dubrensia (1636) sig. C3 How lubber-like they loll upon the Plaines!
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