Word Meanings - LOOBY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An awkward, clumsy fellow; a lubber. Swift.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LOOBY)

• Lout
• Clown
• looby
• clodhopper
• clod

Related words: (words related to LOOBY)

• CLOWNAGE
  Behavior or manners of a clown; clownery. B. Jonson.
• CLOWN
  Fries. kl clown, dial. Sw. klunn log, Dan. klunt log block, and E. 1. A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor. Sir P. Sidney. 2. One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl. The clown, the child
• CLOWNISH
  Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward. "Clownish hands." Spenser. "Clownish mimic." Prior. -- Clown"ish*ly, adv. Syn. -- Coarse; rough; clumsy; awkward; ungainly; rude; uncivil; ill- bred; boorish; rustic;
• CLOWNISHNESS
  The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior. That plainness which the alamode people call clownishness. Locke.
• LOOBY
  An awkward, clumsy fellow; a lubber. Swift.
• CLOWNERY
  Clownishness. L'Estrange.
• CLODHOPPER
  A rude, rustic fellow.