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Land Lover or Landlubber
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Land Lover or Landlubber :
“Lubber” is an old term for a clumsy person, and beginning in the 18th century sailors used it to describe a person who was not a good seaman.
So the pirate expression of scorn for those who don’t go to sea is not “land lover” but “landlubber.”
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