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looty

looty is the alternative form of lootie.

Meaning of lootie

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 looty

plurallooties

Questions about looty

What is looty the alternative form of?
Looty is the alternative form of lootie.

Words near looty in the dictionary

  1. lootocratic
  2. lootocrats
  3. loots
  4. lootsman
  5. lootsmen
  6. looty
  7. loover
  8. loovered
  9. loovers
  10. Loowit
  11. Looy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: looty (page history and authors); lootie (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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