Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An old term of contempt for an able-bodied idler who grew sleek and fat upon the charity of religious houses: also sometimes applied to monks.
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Examples
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Loitering_, and not to become an abbey-lubber, as the old proverb was, but to yield some fruit of my private life ....
Bacon John Morley 1852
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This is no father Dominick, no huge overgrown abbey-lubber; this is but a diminutive sucking friar.
The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06 John Dryden 1665
codydody commented on the word abbey-lubber
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubber_fiend
August 13, 2015
ruzuzu commented on the word abbey-lubber
How interesting! Have you seen Lubber? http://www.nebraskahistory.org/sites/mnh/weird_nebraska/have_you_seen.htm
August 13, 2015