abbey lubber

The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia · 1910 · p. 1
A term of contempt for a fat, lazy, idle monk. Jennings says it is still used in Somerset for an idle fellow. "This is no Father Dominic, no huge overgrown abbey-lubber; this is but a diminutive, sucking friar." -Dryden: Spanish Friar , iii. 2. Besides abbey -land and abbey - lubber there are in English literature a number of other words compounded with abbey ; for instance, abbey-church and abbey - plate (Froude), abbey gate and abbey- wall (Shakespeare).
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