Obs. exc. Sc. and north. dial. Also 7 lubberd, 8 lubber’d, 9 lobbart, lubbart, -ert. [Altered form of LUBBER: see -ARD.] = LUBBER sb.
1586. in Neal, Hist. Purit. (1754), I. 321. That all cathedral churches may be put down…. They are the dens of idle loitering lubbards.
1612. trans. Benvenuto’s Passenger, I. i. 3. Thou slouenly lubberd, and toyish fellow, what idle toyes goest thou fantasticating.
1712. Steele, Spect., No. 466, ¶ 1. In all the Dances he invents … he keeps close to the Characters he represents. He gives to Clowns and Lubbards clumsy Graces.
1724. Ramsay, Health, 306. Sciatic, jaundice, dropsy, or the stone, Alternate makes the lazy lubbard groan.
1823. Scott, Peveril, xxxv. I need only instance … the celebrated downfall of Goliah, and of another lubbard.
1867. Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., Lubber, or Lubbart, an awkward unseamanlike fellow.
1899. H. Pease, Tales Northumbria, 173. Thoo great clumsy lubbert, see what thoo’s done!
b. attrib., appositive or quasi-adj.: Lubberly.
1679. Earl Rochester, in Roxb. Ball. (1883), IV. 567. So have I seen at Smithfield’s wondrous Fair,… A lubbard Elephant divert the Town.
1710. Medley, No. 2/3. His lubber’d Genius from its Byass crost, In heaps of false Arithmetick is lost. Ibid. (1711), No. 39/1. The other … was such a Lubbard Trickster, so aukward at Mischief.
1784. Cowper, Task, III. 400. Conscious how much the hand Of lubbard Labour needs his watchful eye.
1817. J. F. Pennie, Roy. Minstr., V. 5. Ocean … stretches its lubbard arms Along the shores low growling.
