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lubber

n.
US //ˈɫəbɝ// UK //lˈʌbɐ// lub·ber Archaic
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Origin

From Middle English, perhaps from Old French lobeor (“swindler”), or of Scandinavian origin, compare dialectal Swedish lubber. The grasshopper was likely so called after sense 1 (“a clumsy or lazy person”).

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