loobily

English

Etymology

From looby +‎ -ly.

Adjective

loobily (comparative more loobily, superlative most loobily)

1. (obsolete) Awkward; ungainly.
   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):

     There was in Wales a great and loobily image, called Darvell Gatherne, of which an old prophecy went that it should burn a forest […]

   • 1692, 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:

     the Mafter fetting his Boys their Leflons, and their Exercifes, and a Loobily Country Fellow

Adverb

loobily (comparative more loobily, superlative most loobily)

1. (obsolete) awkwardly

References

• “loobily”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.