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Brewer's: Lazy Lobkin
(A). A lob (says Halliwell) is “the last person in a race.” (Somersetshire). (Welsh llob, a dolt, our “lubber.”)
“A lazy lobkin, like an idle loute.”
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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