An Abbey-lubberAn idle, well-fed dependent or loafer. “It came into a common proverbe to call him an Abbay-lubber, that was idle, wel fed, a long, lewd, lither loiterer, that might worke and would not.” —The Burnynge of Paules Church, 1563. It is used also of religions in contempt; see Dryden's Spanish Friar. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Abbey-lubber from Infoplease:
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