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lootie

lootie noun: an irregular soldier whose main object was plunder; a marauder.

Noun

lootie (plural looties)

  1. (India, in plural) An irregular soldier whose main object was plunder; a marauder.
    • Hyder Ali's stragglers, or looties as they were called, committed such repeated depradations upon all the European habitations, even to the edge of the works of the fort, that the proprietors removed everything valuable […] .1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 93

Forms of lootie

plurallooties
alternative formlooty

Origin of lootie

From a derivation of Hindi लूटना (lūṭnā, “to loot”).

Questions about lootie

What does lootie mean?
Lootie means an irregular soldier whose main object was plunder; a marauder.
What part of speech is lootie?
Lootie is a noun.
What is the plural of lootie?
The plural of lootie is looties.

Words near lootie in the dictionary

  1. lootbox
  2. lootboxes
  3. looted
  4. looter
  5. looters
  6. lootie
  7. looties
  8. lootilities
  9. lootility
  10. lootin'
  11. looting

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