landlubber

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Surreder yer eBooks, ye landlubber, or ya throat 'l taste the blade o'me cutlass!

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Quick take

a person who lives and works on land

Meaning at a glance

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noun

a person who lives and works on land

noun

an inexperienced sailor; a sailor on the first voyage

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for landlubber.

noun

a person who lives and works on land

noun

an inexperienced sailor; a sailor on the first voyage

Example sentences

Surreder yer eBooks, ye landlubber, or ya throat 'l taste the blade o'me cutlass!

The very idea of a touchscreen on a ship is mindboggling, at least to a landlubber.

Yer mother's a landlubber and yer father smells faintly of laundry detergent.

The drone recorded footage of the insurgents drinking grog and cursing landlubbers.

Easy to tell a landlubber that all comms and motive power are down, and sharks are trying to kill them so they need to cuddle together in fear below decks.

If the progenitor hasn't changed much, the landlubber adaptations could make the two parallel descendants much more similar to each other than to their parents.

For landlubbers a composting unit that separates solids and liquids would be way better for anything that you don't want to empty on an almost daily basis.

I suppose if I was in the .mil I'd have a way to dump distilled water into the coolant for just such a situation and/or I'd have regs to never run the shim system that high and/or I'd have so much excess reactivity in the control system that, well, a landlubber would be nervous about it, so you could just burn thru the xenon poisoning anyway.