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loobily

loobily adjective: awkward; ungainly.

Adjective

loobily (comparative more loobily, superlative most loobily)

  1. (obsolete) Awkward; ungainly.
    • There was in Wales a great and loobily image, called Darvell Gatherne, of which an old prophecy went that it should burn a forest […]1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI)
    • the Mafter fetting his Boys their Leflons, and their Exercifes, and a Loobily Country Fellow1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC

Adverb

loobily (comparative more loobily, superlative most loobily)

  1. (obsolete) awkwardly

loobily meaning in Tamil

loobily in Tamil

தளர்வான

Forms of loobily

Adjective
comparativemore loobily
superlativemost loobily
Adverb
comparativemore loobily
superlativemost loobily

Origin of loobily

From looby + -ly.

Questions about loobily

What does loobily mean?
Loobily means awkward; ungainly.
What is loobily in Tamil?
Loobily in Tamil is தளர்வான. See Loobily meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is loobily?
Loobily can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near loobily in the dictionary

  1. loo-table
  2. loo-tables
  3. looard
  4. loob
  5. loobies
  6. loobily
  7. loobs
  8. looby
  9. Looby Loo
  10. Loobys
  11. Looc

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Adapted from Wiktionary: loobily (page history and authors); loobily (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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