Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The land of Cock-aigne.
- noun The place of future existence of lubbers: a kind of nautical purgatory.
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Examples
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It may seem to us an idle lubberland, a paradise of do-nothings; -- Mr. Ruskin sees in it only a "dim, stupid, serene, leguminous enjoyment."
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Various
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"Emerge from the lubberland of dreams, and be swift in attendance upon a wight whose wandering star has led him to your hospitable gate."
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On the contrary, nothing so facile, pellucid, pleasant to read had appeared in modern literature -- a poetic lubberland, a "clear, unwrinkled song."
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886
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Elation at mere existence, pure cosmic emotion and delight, would, it seems to me, quench all interest in those speculations, if the world were nothing but a lubberland of happiness already.
Pragmatism William James 1876
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Truth I cried, though the heavens crush me for following her; no falsehood! though a whole celestial lubberland were the price of apostacy.
Thomas Carlyle John Nichol 1863
whichbe commented on the word lubberland
A mythical paradise reserved for those who are lazy.
May 14, 2008
whichbe commented on the word lubberland
"There is no law nor lawyer's fees
All men are free from fury,
For ev'ry one do's what he please,
Without a judge or jury:
The summer-time is warm they say,
The winter's ne'er the colder,
They have no landlords' rent to pay
Each man is a free-holder."
-- An Invitation To Lubberland
May 26, 2008
Gammerstang commented on the word lubberland
(noun) - A slang term anciently applied to London - substituted for Cocaigne by the poets and wits of the 16th century. Lud's Town, a name sometimes anciently given to London was so called after Lud, a mythical king of England. "And on the gates of Lud's Town set your heads." Shakespeare's Cymbeline.
--Henry Reddall's Fact, Fancy, and Fable, 1889
January 19, 2018