underlook

Noun

underlook (plural underlooks)

1. (rare) A concealed or oblique glance.
   • […] exultingly cried Lord Carhampton, stealing an underlook at Maurice O'Driscoll, whom ^([sic]) he knew was wont to boast of his Milesian lineage; […]1884, M. L. O'Byrne, Ill-won Peerages, Or, An Unhallowed Union, page 427
   • […] rubbing his hands busily, rocking back and forth with one foot in front of the other, his head down but watching Watson with an underlook that was very arrogant, cocky, […]1973, Jack Kerouac, Visions of Cody, New Directions, →ISBN

Verb

US/ʌndɚˈlʊk/UK/ʌndəˈlʊk/

underlook (third-person singular simple present underlooks, present participle underlooking, simple past and past participle underlooked)

1. (rare, transitive) To look up at from below; to inspect from underneath.
   • They would be Shepherds and feed his Sheep, and anoint them for the Scab, and underlook them.1682, Edmund Hickeringill, The black Non-Conformist, discover'd, iii, 14
   • Upon a rough table-ledge, they came to it at last; the place where they could lean in between the trees, and overlook and underlook the shining tumult [of the waterfall].1873, A.D.T. Whitney, The Other Girls, page 242
2. (rare, transitive) To fail to notice or give due importance to, especially because one is notionally looking too low (found in complement with overlook, as if it meant "to fail to notice because one is looking too high").
   • Existing review research has focused on specific terms, underlooking important developments in the area.2020, Vera Ferreira et al., “Stakeholders' Engagement on Nature-Based Solutions: A Systematic Literature Review”, in Sustainability, volume 12, number 620, page 19
   • The CHAIRMAN. I am not overlooking anything. I am just making inquiry of you for information.
     Mr. THOMSON. I know you do not overlook anything.
     The CHAIRMAN. I am not overlooking or underlooking, but just listening to you and trying to get your viewpoint.1950, Hearings before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Eighty-First Congress, Second Session, volume 2, page 2656