lubber
/luhb-er/US // ˈlʌb ər //UK // (ˈlʌbə) //
缓冲器,橡胶,缓冲区,缓冲剂
Definitions
n.名词 noun
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- : a big, clumsy, stupid person; lout.
- : an awkward or unskilled sailor; landlubber.
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : clumsy; stupid; lubberly.
v.无主动词 verb
- 1
- : to behave like a lubber, especially in the handling of a boat.
Examples
“And now for some rope-pie for the stubborn young lubber,” said the skipper, lifting a bit of rope as he spoke.
Get out of my sight and take your hands out of your pockets, you insolent little lubber.
While he had winked his eyes, so it seemed to him, the true course had fairly straddled away from the lubber line.
I've been a listenin' to you and that lubber that doesn't know a whale's a fish, and it looks squally to me.
Her master, as Griggs remarked, "was no d—d slouching lubber, and knew a yardarm from a rattan cane."
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