A Dictionary of the English Language/abbey-lubber

by Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

A′bbey-Lubber. n. s. [See Lubber.]

A slothful loiterer in a religious house, under pretence of retirement and austerity.

This is no Father Dominic, no huge overgrown abbey-lubber; this is but a diminutive sucking friar.Dryd. Sp. Fr.