landlubber
noun
an unseasoned sailor or someone unfamiliar with the sea.
landlubbing
-
a word derived from
landlubber.
Example Sentences
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The Disney mermaid who hoards silverware, pines for a landlubbing prince and sings about wanting to be “part of your world.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2016
A car restoration buff during his landlubbing hours, Blomquist said the reclamation process is similar on land or sea.
From Washington Times ● May 28, 2016
We have long embraced the buccaneer as a naughty, unconventional, seafaring hidden part of our politer, conventional, landlubbing selves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2014
Plasmodial slime molds — landlubbing crawling bags of cytoplasm of which I am enormously fond — are also contenders for that title.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 15, 2013
Only result of this precaution, as it turned out, was that the Pirate'?, bedraggled crew boarded the liner a little later than the landlubbing newsmen who had stayed ashore.
From Time Magazine Archive
