Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA large and awkward or clumsy person; an oaf.
Uncertain. Perhaps from lob (“a large piece, lump”) + -y.
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- Word-formation component-yen
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