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A young salmon; a grilse. (more info) 1. One who mends or patches, esp. a tailor or cobbler. Shak. 2. A clumsy or careless workman; a bungler.

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  • CLOWNAGE
    Behavior or manners of a clown; clownery. B. Jonson.
  • BUNGLER
    A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles. If to be a dunce or a bungler in any profession be shameful, how much more ignominious and infamous to a scholar to be such! Barrow.
  • BOTCHERY
    A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship.
  • 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.
  • FUMBLER
    One who fumbles.
  • BOTCHERLY
    Bungling; awkward.
  • BOTCHER
    A young salmon; a grilse. (more info) 1. One who mends or patches, esp. a tailor or cobbler. Shak. 2. A clumsy or careless workman; a bungler.
  • CLOWNERY
    Clownishness. L'Estrange.
  • NOVICESHIP
    The state of being a novice; novitiate.
  • LUBBERLY
    Like a lubber; clumsy. A great lubberly boy. Shak.
  • LUBBER
    A heavy, clumsy, or awkward fellow; a sturdy drone; a clown. Lingering lubbers lose many a penny. Tusser. Land lubber, a name given in contempt by sailors to a person who lives on land. -- Lubber grasshopper , a large, stout, clumsy grasshopper;
  • NOVICE
    One who enters a religious house, whether of monks or nuns, as a probationist. Shipley. No poore cloisterer, nor no novys. Chaucer. (more info) 1. One who is new in any business, profession, or calling; one unacquainted or unskilled; one yet in
  • SLUBBERDEGULLION
    A mean, dirty wretch.
  • BESLUBBER
    To beslobber.
  • BLUBBERY
    1. Swollen; protuberant. 2. Like blubber; gelatinous and quivering; as, a blubbery mass.
  • BEBLUBBER
    To make swollen and disfigured or sullied by weeping; as, her eyes or cheeks were beblubbered.
  • SLUBBER
    1. To do lazily, imperfectly, or coarsely. Slubber not business for my sake. Shak. 2. To daub; to stain; to cover carelessly. There is no art that hath more . . . slubbered with aphorisming pedantry than the art of policy. Milton.
  • BLUBBERED
    Swollen; turgid; as, a blubbered lip. Spenser.
  • SLUBBERINGLY
    In a slovenly, or hurried and imperfect, manner. Drayton.
  • BLUBBER
    A large sea nettle or medusa. (more info) 1. A bubble. At his mouth a blubber stood of foam. Henryson. 2. The fat of whales and other large sea animals from which oil is obtained. It lies immediately under the skin and over the muscular flesh.

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