abbey-lubber

noun

An able-bodied idler who grew sleek and fat from the charity of religious houses; a lazy monk.

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Meanings

nounabbey-lubber (plural abbey-lubbers)

plural abbey-lubbers

  1. derogatoryhistoricalobsoleteAn able-bodied idler who grew sleek and fat from the charity of religious houses; a lazy monk.

    This is no huge overgrown abbey-lubber.

    1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar, III-iii
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