lubber

Other forms of lubber

plural

lubbers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lubber

What does lubber mean?

lubber means "an awkward stupid person". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lubber?

lubber has 2 syllables: lub-ber. The stress falls on "lub". In IPA it is /ˈlʌbɚ/.

What is another word for lubber?

Close synonyms include lout, clod, stumblebum, goon, oaf. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lubber a common word?

lubber is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.