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English
[edit]Etymology
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Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -uːbi
Noun
[edit]looby (plural loobies)
- (now rare, dialect) A large and awkward or clumsy person; an oaf.
- 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 1227:
- ‘Depend upon it, Sir, a savage, when he is hungry, will not carry about with him a looby of nine years old, who cannot help himself.’
- 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book IV, chapter 35:
- Thus while I tell the truth about loobies, my reader's imagination need not be entirely excluded from an occupation with lords […] .