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lubber

/luhb-er/US // ˈlʌb ər //UK // (ˈlʌbə) //

缓冲器,橡胶,缓冲区,缓冲剂

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a big, clumsy, stupid person; lout.
    • : an awkward or unskilled sailor; landlubber.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : clumsy; stupid; lubberly.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 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."