Lubberly

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lub·ber (l

1. A clumsy person.

2. An inexperienced sailor; a landlubber.

[Middle English lobur, lazy lout; akin to lob, lout; see lob.]

lubber·ly adv. & adj.

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Adj.	1.	lubberly - clumsy and unskilled; "a big stupid lubberly fellow" unskilled - not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency; "unskilled in the art of rhetoric"; "an enthusiastic but unskillful mountain climber"; "unskilled labor"; "workers in unskilled occupations are finding fewer and fewer job opportunities"; "unskilled workmanship"
	2.	lubberly - inexperienced in seamanship; "of all landlubbers the most lubberly" landlubberly unseamanlike - not seamanlike

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