| 单词 | to play the lubber |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto play the lubber a. A big, clumsy, stupid fellow; esp. one who lives in idleness; a lout. Also in †to play the lubber. In early quots. frequently applied to a monk (cf. abbey-lubber n.). Obsolete exc. archaic or dialect. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > stupid person, dolt, blockhead > lout, oaf, booby > [noun] lubber1362 looby1377 howfing?a1513 slouch?1518 bowberta1522 knuckylbonyarda1529 lob1533 lout1548 patch1549 hoballa1556 lilburnea1556 lobcocka1556 chub1558 hick1565 lourd1579 peasant1581 clown1583 lubbard1586 lumberer1593 lump1597 blooterc1600 boobyc1600 lob-coat1604 hoy1607 bacon-brainsa1635 alcatote1638 oaf1638 kelf1665 brute1670 dowf1722 gawky1724 chuckle1731 chuckle-head1731 John Trott1753 stega1823 lummoxa1825 gawk1837 country jakea1854 guffin1862 galoot1866 stot1877 lobster1896 mutt1900 palooka1920 schlub1950 the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [noun] > lazy person > loutish or stupid lubber1362 slouch?1518 lubber-wort1547 litherback1577 lubbard1586 lither lurdena1590 litherby1598 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. Prol. 52 Grete lobres [MS. H. (c1400) loburs] and longe þat loþ weore to swynke Cloþeden hem in Copes. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 615/2 I lubber, I playe the lubber, je loricarde. You lubber as well as any knave in this towne. c1530 A. Barclay Egloges iii. sig. Piij v Some be forgetfull,..Some craftles foolys, some prowd & neglygent If thou chaunge supposynge, some better for to haue Thou voydest a lubber & hast agayne a knaue. ?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye Prol. sig. a7 That we shuld no lenger..be dyspoyled & robbed of a syght of sturdye lubbarres. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) liiii. sig. Lvi Two greate lubbers brought after hym the heed of the monster in a great basket. a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) ii. f. 31v They went to the Grammer schole, litle children: they came from thence great lubbers: alwayes learning, and litle profiting. 1590 ‘Pasquil’ First Pt. Pasquils Apol. sig. Dv Will he neuer leaue to play the lubber? what a lazie, lowtish kind of argument is this. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear iv. 88 If you will measure your lubbers length againe, tarry. View more context for this quotation 1671 J. Webster Metallographia i. 18 Idle Lubbers that dare not adventure from the air of their Countries. 1753 T. Gray Long Story in Six Poems 23 And so God save our noble King, And guard us from long-winded Lubbers. 1812 Sporting Mag. 40 159 The sparks which flew from the pipe of a lubber who was blowing smoke and fire about at the door of the Angel. 1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. xix. 208 Now is the lubber tame! 1888 B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases Lubber, or Lubber-yead, one very stupid indeed. < as lemmas |
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