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Meanings of lubber in inglês

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An awkward stupid person.

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      An inexperienced sailor; a sailor on the first voyage.

            Usage of lubber in inglês
            1
            Every lubber knows that a ship is launched before she is rigged.
            The Pirate Island: A Story of the South Pacific
            2
            Fell sick in the Bay o' Biscay, like any land-lubber, didn't he?
            Dead Man's Rock
            3
            The mate now complimented me by exclaiming, 'Why, look at the lubber!'
            Cast Away in the Cold / An Old Man's Story of a Young Man's Adve...
            4
            Exasperated at this sarcasm, he replied, with great vehemence, You lie, lubber!
            The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
            5
            You are no land-lubber, and you will run me over in the morning.
            The Doctor's Dilemma
            6
            Worse than that, I was a land-lubber making his first voyage.
            The Human Drift
            7
            Thou Hal, thou lazy lubber, go with Piers and the sheep-
            The Herd Boy and His Hermit
            8
            But it shall never be said that Jack Sparhawk was an unmannerly lubber.
            The Knight of the Golden Melice: A Historical Romance
            9
            I am afraid that lubber won't think of looking to windward.
            Love Me Little, Love Me Long
            10
            Well, that saves you an extra lesson to-morrow, you lubber you.
            Willis the Pilot : A Sequel to the Swiss Family Robinson / Or, A...
            11
            Can't you see, you land-lubber, that that's the Stars and Stripes upside down?'
            The Magic Egg, and Other Stories
            12
            This innocent vast lubber did not see any particular difference between the two facts.
            A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
            13
            Her skipper must be a lubber to have the ropes hanging about like that.
            The Queen's Cup
            14
            And the reason is that she's fond of the lubber.
            Gunman's Reckoning
            15
            Then she was commanded by a seaman, and is now commanded by a lubber.
            Hard Cash
            16
            Drop down, boatman, and we'll see who is the lubber.
            Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and...
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