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Abbey-lubber
AB'BEY-LUBBER
,Noun.
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abbey-lubber
abbey-lubber
English
Noun
abbey-lubber (plural abbey-lubbers)
- (obsolete) term of contempt for an able-bodied idler who grew sleek and fat from the charity of religious houses; a lazy monk.[1]
- 1681: This is no huge overgrown abbey-lubber. - John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar, III-iii
References
- ↑ Lesley Brown (editor), The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2003 [1933], ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7), page 3
- The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1914