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Clownish vs Lubberly - What's the difference?

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Clownish is a related term of lubberly.


As adjectives the difference between clownish and lubberly

is that clownish is pertaining to peasants; rustic while lubberly is clumsy and stupid; resembling a lubber (an inexperienced person).

As an adverb lubberly is

in the manner of a landlubber.

clownish

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to peasants; rustic.
  • Uncultured, boorish; rough, coarse.
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:
  • *:Large were his limbes, and terrible his looke, / And in his clownish hand a sharp bore speare he shooke.
  • *1815 , (Jane Austen), Emma , :
  • *:"He is very plain, undoubtedly--remarkably plain:--but that is nothing compared with his entire want of gentility. I had no right to expect much, and I did not expect much; but I had no idea that he could be so very clownish , so totally without air. I had imagined him, I confess, a degree or two nearer gentility."
  • Like a circus clown; comical, ridiculous.
  • * 2014 , Jacob Steinberg, " Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals", The Guardian , 9 March 2014:
    • Once again, City's defending was clownish . James McArthur drove into the area on the left and pulled a low cross towards the far post, where the horribly timid Gaël Clichy allowed Perch to bundle the ball past Costel Pantilimon.
  • *2005 , (Laura Barton), The Guardian , 14 May 2005:
  • *:Indeed, when in close quarters to Rooney, it must prove almost irresistible to stick a plastic moustache and silly clownish shoes on the potato-headed fool.

    • lubberly

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Clumsy and stupid; resembling a lubber (an inexperienced person).
  • * Shakespeare
    • a great lubberly boy
  • * 1693 , , Chapter XX:
    • Ponocrates and Eudemon burst out in a laughing so heartily, that they had almost split with it, and given up the ghost, in rendering their souls to God: even just as Crassus did, seeing a lubberly ass eat thistles;
  • Lacking in seamanship; of or suitable to a landlubber who is new to being at sea and unfamiliar with the ways of a sailor.
  • * 1848 , , "Captain Spike, Or The Islets of the Gulf", in Bentley's Miscellany [http://books.google.com/books?id=79zu_mUqPYgC], page 19:
  • *:"Do not use such a lubberly expression, my dear Rose, if you respect your father's profession. On a vessel is a new-fangled Americanism, that is neither fish, flesh, nor red-herring, as we sailors say,— neither English nor Greek."

    • Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In the manner of a landlubber.
  • * 1839 , Matthew Henry Barker, Hamilton King [http://books.google.com/books?id=X3wEAAAAQAAJ], page 105:
    • I'm not ignorant of these matters, having been many years at sea—and seamen, you must know, are curious in knots; I cannot endure to see anything done lubberly .