Lexicographical Neighbors of Lubberliness
Literary usage of Lubberliness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"lubberliness, loutishness ; clumsy weight. You, like a lazy hulk, whose stupendous
magnitude is full big enough to load an elephant with ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1868)
"... had vague doubt whether his English dignity were not being regarded as English
lubberliness ; but, of course, he hated the two Frenchmen all the more, ..."
3. The Autobiography of a Seaman by Thomas Cochrane Dundonald, George Butler Earp, William Jackson (1860)
"... for my neat chest had become an unshapely piece of lumber, he pointed out
the " lubberliness of shore- going people in not making keyholes where they ..."
4. Surveying the Record: North American Scientific Exploration to 1930 by Edward Carlos Carter (1999)
"... "land- lubberliness," while some of the officers were noticeably incompetent
in over-land expeditions.8 In conflicts between landlubbers and salts, ..."
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