An imaginary land of plenty without labor; a land of laziness.
1598. Florio, Cocagna, as we say Lubberland.
1614. B. Jonson, Bart. Fair, III. ii. Good mother, how shall we finde a pigge, if we doe not looke about for’t? will it run off o’ the spit, into our mouths thinke you? as in Lubberland? and cry, we, we?
1633. Shirley, Gamester, III. (1637), F 2 b. And so I commend mee to all your friends in Lubber-Land.
1681. W. Robertson, Phraseol. Gen. (1693), 621. Weak-witted; a wittal; a fool; born in Lubberland.
1827. Scott, Napoleon, IV. 206. A Grand Elector, who was to be the very model of a king of Lubberland.
1856. R. A. Vaughan, Mystics (1860), I. 238. Pining after your Lubberland, as usual,—your Millennium of mere ease and plentiful supply.
1893. McCarthy, Red Diamonds, I. 160. Luxuriously enjoying his monarchy of the lubberland of bed.
