landlubbing
English
editEtymology
editBack-formation from landlubber, using -ing.
Adjective
editlandlubbing (not comparable)
- (nautical, derogatory) Unfamiliar with the sea or seamanship.
- 1983 August 20, “Mousie Mousie Wildflower (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 6, page 18:
- Some sweet motion of the sea
And feathered form the Chickadee
Twenty-seven miles from land
it makes landlubbing mind expand.