lubber

noun

ˈlə-bər How to pronounce lubber (audio)
Definition of lubbernext
1
as in hulk
a big clumsy often slow-witted person although he's something of a lubber, everyone agrees that he has a kind heart

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2
as in lummox
a clumsy, awkward person the two lubbers who came to deliver my furniture

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Recent Examples of lubber One of the synthetic pyrethroids could also help control the young lubber grasshoppers. — Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2025 Unlike other grasshopper species which are winged and agile, the lubber can't fly. — Adriana Brasileiro, orlandosentinel.com, 19 July 2019 Water-lubbers can easily access freshwater lakes, rural flatland and woodland forests. — Amy Aumick, OrlandoSentinel.com, 15 May 2018 China does not have the sealift, airlift, or sustainment capability to project force to Taiwan - and that's before the US Navy gets involved as lubber points out below. — Isaac Stone Fish, Slate Magazine, 4 Oct. 2017 Lubbers expects that Cuban Travel Network will start offering small group tours built around live events to attract American travelers looking for a Cuban music experience but unable to go on their own. — Judy Cantor-Navas, Billboard, 22 June 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lubber
  1. hulk
  2. lummox
  3. loser
  4. dub
  5. lump
  6. klutz
  7. moron
  8. gawk
Noun
  • In the film, Russell wants a hulk of a man but doesn’t care about money, while Monroe transparently is looking for a man who can fuel her desire for diamonds.
    — Rance Collins, Entertainment Weekly, 17 July 2026
  • When Krem takes off in Kara’s spacecraft, a rusted hulk that’s like an interplanetary RV, and shoots her beloved dog Krypto with a lethal tranquilizer that will result in agonizing death in three days, Kara joins Ruthye on her revenge quest.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 24 June 2026
Definition of hulk
Noun
  • There’s married mom of six Angela (Alexandra Melrose), who needs a break from the double-wide trailer and her lummox spouse.
    — Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Max is still living happily in New York City with his owner, Katie (Ellie Kemper), and his lummox of a best friend Duke (Eric Stonestreet).
    — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 6 June 2019
Definition of lummox
Noun
  • No longer football’s famous losers, Newcastle’s identity was now blurred.
    — George Caulkin, New York Times, 30 July 2026
  • Winners and losers in the shifting tax landscape Critics say the trend toward lower income taxes favors wealthy individuals and corporations and imperils public investments in infrastructure, housing, education and childcare.
    — Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 30 July 2026
Definition of loser
Noun
  • At moments in the song, Minogue pitches the word down, a cavernous yawn resounding far from the lub-dub of forever.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 26 July 2026
  • Track seven swathes a nervous dub rhythm in cottony pads and opulent harps; track eight takes us out on an uncharacteristically beatless swirl, like a tide pool full of sea anemones.
    — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 18 July 2026
Definition of dub
Noun
  • Ganglion cysts are noncancerous lumps at the hand and wrist that contain a clear, gel-like liquid, per the American Society for Surgery of the Hand.
    — Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 25 July 2026
  • In the United States, winners can select between a single lump payment and annual payments over a period of 30 years, with annual payments increasing by 5%.
    — Conor Murray, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of lump
Noun
  • Like Lerner’s previous protagonists, the narrator is something of an intellectual klutz, at once Chekhov and Chaplin.
    — Giles Harvey, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Leslie played along, pretending to be a klutz who liked being harshed by a pre-school kid.
    — Noor Hassan, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2025
Definition of klutz
Noun
  • God help us all if some idiot, some moron, ever put you in charge.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 18 July 2026
  • Mantzoukas was willing to look like a maniac and a moron in equal measure.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 17 June 2026
Definition of moron
Noun
  • Carrie raves to Seema about her creative connection with Duncan, and during another writing session, Duncan helps Carrie with her faulty printer and gawks at her closet full of designer dresses and shoes.
    — Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 31 July 2025
  • The badaud, by contrast, is always liable to form a group or crowd, either for a mass gawk or some communal response.
    — Julian Barnes, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2022
Definition of gawk

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