LUBBERLY


Meaning of LUBBERLY in English

I. adjective

Etymology: lubber (I) + -ly

1.

a. : resembling or having the characteristics of a lubber : clumsy , lazy , loutish , stupid

emerged a lubberly mediocrity — C.J.Rolo

b. : not seamanlike

of all landlubbers, the most lubberly — Herman Melville

2. : appropriate to or fit for a lubber

unfit for anything but some lubberly shoreside pursuit — LaSelle Gilman

3. of a ship

a. : handled ineptly

b. : not shipshape

II. adverb

: in a lubberly manner

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