Brewer's: Lubber

(A). A dolt. Seamen call an awkward sailor a land-lubber. A variant of “looby” (Welsh, llob, with a diminutive, “somewhat of a dunce or dolt.”)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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