as in lubber
a clumsy, awkward person although he was a looby physically, he was a towering figure in mathematics

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Noun
  • One of the synthetic pyrethroids could also help control the young lubber grasshoppers.
    Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Land lubbers hike: Lace up those shoes for a 9 to 11 a.m. excursion on Sunday, Oct. 20, to Ansel’s Cave in The West Woods in Russell Township.
    Joan Rusek, cleveland, 30 Sep. 2019
Noun
  • Over nearly two centuries, the herbivore has been imagined as a spike-nosed lummox, inappropriate kangaroo and now, at last, a stiff-tailed, mostly quadrupedal animal.
    Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 20 Apr. 2017
  • Fraser was everywhere in the 1990s and early 2000s: a sweetly handsome, blue-eyed lummox whose starring roles established him as a perpetual naif.
    Ty Burr, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2022
Noun
  • Here, the blurring is visual: Sometimes Leonard floats into the past looking like Gere, who wears the character without a shred of self-protection as the lens gawks at his raw skin.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The Esprit's shape, arguably more avant-garde despite its age, consistently pegs the gawk meter.
    John Phillips, Car and Driver, 18 June 2020
Noun
  • This job went to Juan Felipe Sierra, who'll play CR7 in the English dub of the game.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
  • In the English dub of Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron, Pattinson lends the heron an unsavory croak.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Gender-flipping a few genre tropes — like showing the guy as the klutz and having the girl chase him down to proclaim her love — no longer passes for subversive.
    Courtney Howard, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025
  • While one side of the frame shows Pia racing to meet her mother at the bank, conveying her struggle as a hapless klutz, the other half displays a henna ceremony interstitial, elegantly establishing the beauty of tradition and community.
    Courtney Howard, Variety, 6 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The appearance of lumps, wart-like growths, or open sores that don't heal within a few weeks is also a significant sign.
    Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2025
  • However, during a physical provided by the WTA, the governing body of women’s tennis, the following year, another doctor encouraged Dabrowski to get the lump scanned.
    George Ramsay, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2025
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“Looby.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/looby. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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