Lubberland
(ˈlʌbəlænd)
An imaginary land of plenty without labour; a land of laziness.
| 1598 Florio, Cocagna, as we say Lubberland. 1614 B. Jonson Bart. Fair iii. ii, Good mother, how shall we finde a pigge, if we doe not looke about for't? will it run off o' the spit, into our mouths thinke you? as in Lubberland? and cry, we, we? 1633 Shirley Gamester iii. (1637) F 2 b, And so I commend mee to all your friends in Lubber-Land. 1681 W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. (1693) 621 Weak-witted; a wittal; a fool; born in Lubberland. 1827 Scott Napoleon IV. 206 A Grand Elector, who was to be the very model of a king of Lubberland. 1856 R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. 238 Pining after your Lubberland, as usual,—your Millennium of mere ease and plentiful supply. 1893 McCarthy Red Diamonds I. 160 Luxuriously enjoying his monarchy of the lubberland of bed. |