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looky

looky verb: look.

Verb

looky

  1. (colloquial, humorous, sometimes) Look.
    • Lookee here, Tom, being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be.1876, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
    • "… Cain would shout ‘Oh, lookee, lookee pa! what’s that?’"1877, Burdette, Robert Jones. The Rise and Fall of the Mustache: And Other ‘Hawk-eyetems’. Burlington Publishing Co., 1877. p. 15....

Examples of looky in a sentence

  • "Looky thar!" "All right, I can see that hole, all right, but the argument was whether the earth was round or flat, and I say it's round!"1936, The American Mercury:
  • "Looky here, looky here." He's got four little bright coins on his outstretched trembling hand.1989, Elizabeth Jolley, The Travelling Entertainer:

Forms of looky

alternative formlookee
alternative formlookie

Origin of looky

None of the various attested forms appear in the OED, in Victor & Dalzell’s Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, nor in Webster’s New Universal Unabridged Dictionary. According to the RHD, 'looky' (also 'lookee') is an interjection attested from 1875–80 which is an alternative form of the imperative look ye! Similarly, the linguist Andrew L. Sihler indicates that ye, the now-archaic subjective form of the English 2nd pers. plural pronoun, “is fossilized in looky (here) …”.

Words that rhyme with looky

Questions about looky

What does looky mean?
Looky means look.
How do you use looky in a sentence?
"Looky thar!" "All right, I can see that hole, all right, but the argument was whether the earth was round or flat, and I say it's round!"
What part of speech is looky?
Looky is a verb.

Words near looky in the dictionary

  1. lookup
  2. lookup table
  3. lookup tables
  4. lookupable
  5. lookups
  6. looky
  7. looky-likey
  8. looky-loo
  9. looky-loos
  10. loom
  11. loom ahead

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