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lubberly

[luhb-er-lee] / ˈlʌb ər li /




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That fo’c’s’le is great As the place to relate How your lubberly cap’n’s an as’le.

From Washington Post

Time was when owning a houseboat was considered downright lubberly.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Big Lub" to other ball players and rock fighters in Cincinnati when he was a boy, William Howard Taft was large but not lubberly.

From Time Magazine Archive

A lubberly, stoop-shouldered, churlish boy, one Ralph Esposito, refused to sing it.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Plenty men think what I think. Sailing by book is a mighty lubberly business.”

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham


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