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English word landlubbing comes from English land

land (English)

Of or relating to land.. Residing or growing on land. (Irish English, colloquial) A fright.. (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.. (ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.. (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.. (nautical) The lap [...]

-ing (English)

Forming derivative nouns (originally masculine), with the sense ‘son of, belonging to’, as patronymics or diminutives. No longer productive in either sense.. Having a specifed quality, characteristic, or nature; of the kind of Used to form present participles of verbs. Used to form gerunds, a type of verbal nouns, from verbs.. Used to form uncountable nouns from various parts of speech [...]

landlubbing (English)

(nautical, pejorative) Unfamiliar with the sea or seamanship.

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