1886. Miss Braddon, Mohawks, ch. iv. Then came talk of ways and means. His lordship was in low water financially.
L. S. D., subs. (colloquial).—Money.
1891. Referee, 8 Mar. I meet the folks who used to flee To Southern France and Italy; In London now they gladly stay, In London spend their L.S.D.—Where are the fogs of yesterday?
Lubber (or Lubbard), subs. (old:
now recognised).—A hulking
lout; a lumpish oaf: specifically
(nautical) a bad seaman.
1362. Langland, Piers Plowman (a), Prol. 1. 52. Gret lobres and longe.
1534. N. Udall, Roister Doister, iii. 3, p. 44 (Arber). For the veriest dolte that euer was borne, And veriest lubber sloven and beast.
1537. Thersites [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), i. 404]. Come hither, Cacus, thou lubber and false knave!
1567. Edwards, Damon & Pithias [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), iv. 63]. Beaten with a cudgel like a slave, a vacabone, or a lazy lubber.
1570. Wit & Science [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), ii. 387]. These great lubbers are neither active nor wise.
1573. Harman, Caveat. Sturdy Lubbares.
1580. Tusser, Husbandrie, ch.57, st. 22, p. 131 (E. D. S.). For tempest and showers deceiueth a menie, And lingering lubbers loose many a penie.
1590. Nashe, Pasquils Apologie [Grosart (1885), i. 241]. Will he neuer leaue to play the lubber?
1590. Greene, Neuer too Late [Grosart (1881-6), viii. 199]. Leauing this passionate lubber to the conceipt of his loues.
1600. Liberality & Prodigality [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), viii. 340]. Look forth and see: a lubber, fat, great, and tall. Ibid. 370. A luskish lubber, as fat as a log.
1605-6. Shakspeare, King Lear, i. 4. Kent. If you will measure your lubber's length again, tarry.
1621. Burton, Anatomy (ed. 1892), ii. 156. The rest ot these great Zanzummins, or gigantical Anakims, heavy, vast, barbarous lubbers.
1662. Rump Songs ii. 38. If he had but the life And spirit of his Wife, He would not lye still like a lubber.
1671. Crowne, Juliana, iii. 1. Lo, blunderbuss, my lord, grand lubber.
1684. Lacy, Sauny the Scot, v. 1. Go, swagger at your greasy lubber there; your patient wife will make you no more sport.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Lubber, lubberly, a heavy, dull Fellow.
1700. Congreve, Way of the World, iv. 7. How can you name that superannuated lubber? foh!
1725. New Cant. Dict., s.v.
1748. Smollett, Rod. Random, xxiv. And called him . . . swab, and lubber.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1836. M. Scott, Cringle's Log, x. Confound the lubbers! Boatswain's mate, call the watch.
1837. R. H. Barham, The Ingoldsby Legends (ed. 1862), p. 350. Of course in the use of sea-terms you'll not wonder If I now and then should fall into a blunder For which Captain Chamier or Mr. T. P. Cooke Would call me a lubber and son of a sea-cook.
Adj. (old: now recognised).—Clumsy; clownish. Also lubberly.
1580. Tusser, Husbandrie, ch. 9, st. 16, p. 17 (E. D. S.). To raise betimes the lubberlie, Both snorting Hob and Margerie.
1594. Greene, Frier Bacon [Grosart (1881-6), xiii. 45]. This lubberly lurden, ill-shapte, and ill-faced.
1596. Nashe, Saffron Walden, in Works, iii. 125. Lamely and lubberly hee striues to imitate and bee another English Lipsius.
1596. Shakspeare, Merry Wives, v. 5. I came yonder at Eton to marry mistress Anne Page, and she's a great lubberly boy.
1597-8. Haughton, A Woman will have her Will [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), x. 533]. What shall we do with this lubber-lover.
1598. Florio, A Worlde of Wordes. Homaccione, a great euill fauored man, a lubbarly man, a loggarhead.
