a. and adv. [f. LUBBER sb. + -LIKE.] a. adj. Of, pertaining to or characteristic of a lubber. b. adv. After the manner of a lubber.
1572. Huloet (ed. Higgins), Lubberlike, vnhandsome or lowtishe, secors.
1575. Gascoigne, Posies, Flowers, 117. Though you thinke it lubberlike to leese Yet shoulde you lende that one halfe of your cote.
1588. Fraunce, Lawiers Log., Ded. Sheepes skinnes cast over their lubberlike shoulders.
1636. T. Randall in Ann. Dubrensia (1877), 17. How lubber-like they loll upon the Plaines!
1851. H. Melville, Whale, xiii. The jeering glances of the passengers, a lubber-like assembly.
