Word Meanings - LUBBERLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Like a lubber; clumsy. A great lubberly boy. Shak.

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• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
  The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• LUBBERLY
  Like a lubber; clumsy. A great lubberly boy. Shak.
• GREATLY
  1. In a great degree; much. I will greatly multiply thy sorrow. Gen. iii. 16. 2. Nobly; illustriously; magnanimously. By a high fate thou greatly didst expire. Dryden.
• GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER
  A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREAT-GRANDCHILD
  The child of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREATNESS
  1. The state, condition, or quality of being great; as, greatness of size, greatness of mind, power, etc. 2. Pride; haughtiness. It is not of pride or greatness that he cometh not aboard your ships. Bacon.
• GREAT
  great, AS. gret; akin to OS. & LG. grt, D. groot, OHG. grz, G. gross. 1. Large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous; expanded; -- opposed to small and little; as, a great house, ship, farm, plain, distance, length. 2. Large in number;
• CLUMSY
  benumbed, fr. clumsen to be benumbed; cf. Icel. klumsa lockjaw, dial. 1. Stiff or benumbed, as with cold. 2. Without skill or grace; wanting dexterity, nimbleness, or readiness; stiff; awkward, as if benumbed; unwieldy; unhandy; hence; ill-made,
• GREAT WHITE WAY
  Broadway, in New York City, in the neighborhood chiefly occupied by theaters, as from about 30th Street about 50th Street; -- so called from its brilliant illumination at night.
• GREATEN
  To make great; to aggrandize; to cause to increase in size; to expand. A minister's is to greaten and exalt . Ken.
• LUBBER
  A heavy, clumsy, or awkward fellow; a sturdy drone; a clown. Lingering lubbers lose many a penny. Tusser. Land lubber, a name given in contempt by sailors to a person who lives on land. -- Lubber grasshopper , a large, stout, clumsy grasshopper;
• GREATCOAT
  An overcoat.
• GREAT-BELLIED
  Having a great belly, bigbellied; pregnant; teeming. Shak.
• SLUBBERDEGULLION
  A mean, dirty wretch.
• BESLUBBER
  To beslobber.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• BLUBBERY
  1. Swollen; protuberant. 2. Like blubber; gelatinous and quivering; as, a blubbery mass.
• BEBLUBBER
  To make swollen and disfigured or sullied by weeping; as, her eyes or cheeks were beblubbered.
• SLUBBER
  1. To do lazily, imperfectly, or coarsely. Slubber not business for my sake. Shak. 2. To daub; to stain; to cover carelessly. There is no art that hath more . . . slubbered with aphorisming pedantry than the art of policy. Milton.
• BLUBBERED
  Swollen; turgid; as, a blubbered lip. Spenser.
• SLUBBERINGLY
  In a slovenly, or hurried and imperfect, manner. Drayton.
• BLUBBER
  A large sea nettle or medusa. (more info) 1. A bubble. At his mouth a blubber stood of foam. Henryson. 2. The fat of whales and other large sea animals from which oil is obtained. It lies immediately under the skin and over the muscular flesh.