abbey-lubber
English
Noun
abbey-lubber (plural abbey-lubbers)
- (obsolete, historical, derogatory) An able-bodied idler who grew sleek and fat from the charity of religious houses; a lazy monk.[1]
- 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar, III-iii:
- This is no huge overgrown abbey-lubber.
- 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar, III-iii:
References
- “abbey-lubber” in Lesley Brown, editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 3.
- The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1914