lubber
Plural: lubbers
Noun
- A clumsy, awkward, or unskilled person, especially at sea.
- an awkward stupid person
- an inexperienced sailor; a sailor on the first voyage
- A clumsy or lazy person.
- An inexperienced or novice sailor; a landlubber.
- An eastern lubber grasshopper (Romalea microptera).
Examples
- He felt like a lubber when he clumsily misplaced his ’Q’ on a single-letter tile.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English, perhaps from Old French lobeor (“swindler”), or of Scandinavian origin, compare dialectal Swedish lubber. The grasshopper was likely so called after sense 1 (“a clumsy or lazy person”).
Synonyms
clod, gawk, goon, landlubber, landsman, lout, lummox, lump, oaf, stumblebum, alcatote, auf, blunderer, blunderhead, botcher, bumbler, bungler, butterfingers, chucklehead, clodhopper, dauber, duffer, dumbshit, fuckup, fumblefingers, fumbler, galoot, gaum, gobaloon, gype, klutz, lomperd, looby, lubber, lumpkin, maladroit, mess-up, messup, muff, palooka, peabrain, pisher, sad sack, schlemiel, schmuck, screwup, shit bird, slangrill, spaz, trapes, turkey, weapon, yutz
Scrabble Score: 10
lubber: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordlubber: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
lubber: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary