“land、lubber”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

land-lubber

释义

land-lubber|ˈlændˌlʌbə(r)|
[lubber occurs in the 16th c. in this sense.]
A sailor's term of contempt for a landsman.
a1700[see land-loper 2].1752Johnson Rambler No. 198 ⁋ 11 My Uncle..bid me prepare myself against next year for no land lubber should touch his money.1824W. Irving T. Trav. (1849) 417 There was many a land-lubber looked on that might much better have swung in his stead.1875R. F. Burton Gorilla L. II. 15 The philosophic landlubber often wonders at the eternal restlessness of his naval brother⁓man.1884Pae Eustace 130 The service is not intended to pamper landlubbers, but to make smart seamen.
Hence ˈlandlubberish, ˈlandlubberly adjs.
1829J. Wilson in Blackw. Mag. XXXVI. 912 Land⁓lubberish terms.1860Dickens Lett. 4 Sept. (1880) II. 119 The costermongers in the street outside..have an earthy, and, as I may say, a landlubberly aspect.1893Vizetelly Glances Back I. viii. 166 My land-lubberly intelligence failed to grasp the proper meaning.

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