lookatcha

English

Etymology

From look at +‎ -cha.

Interjection

lookatcha

1. Pronunciation spelling of look at you.
   • [1925 June, Vida Ravenscroft Sutton, “Do You Speak English”, in Frank Quinn, editor, Everybody’s Magazine, volume 52, number 6, New York, N.Y.: The Ridgway Company, page 180:

     Such expressions as “dijever,” “slong,” “lookatcha,” “saulrite,” “izatso,” “yamnot,” “notchet,” express our national rush.]

   • 1957, Dorothy Erskine, Patrick Dennis, The Pink Hotel, page 253:

     Why, Mary Street! I wouldn’t of recognized you. Lookatcha! Back from Florida an’ brown as an indian!

   • 1965 May 9, Wally Wallis, “State Parks Have Good Golf Courses”, in The Sunday Oklahoman, volume 74, number 124, Oklahoma City, Okla.: Oklahoma Publishing Co., section “Sports”, page 5:

     Lookatcha! You’re one of those weekend golfers who hasta stand in line at Lincoln Park, Lake Hefner or some place before dawn for a chance to play 18 holes of golf.

   • 2006, Dana Rondel, A Flower: It Has Its Own Song, Bloomington, Ind., Milton Keynes: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 71:

     Lookatcha. Movin’ ’em bodies like grown ladies and talkin’ that nonsense.

Phrase

lookatcha

1. Pronunciation spelling of look at your.
   • 1962 May 4, Floyd Carl Jr., “Carousel”, in Northwest Arkansas Times, 102nd year, number 275, Fayetteville, Ark., page 11:

     I wanna lookatcha fingernails.

   • 1971, Patrick Dennis, “The Other Side of Paradise”, in Paradise, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., →ISBN, page 290:

     Lookatcha nightie! Ya got it on inside out!

   • 2006, Dana Rondel, A Flower: It Has Its Own Song, Bloomington, Ind., Milton Keynes: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 129:

     Lookatcha face. It’s all scratched up now.

Noun

lookatcha

1. Pronunciation spelling of look at you.
   • 1934 June 19, Bergen Evening Record, volume XXXX, number 12 (total 11478), Hackensack, N.J., page 22:

     “So, Dillinger,” snapped a detective, “off with the winter underwear and let’s have a lookatcha.”

   • 1990, Carolyn Chase, The Smuggler’s Embrace, Dell Publishing, →ISBN, page 48:

     Just c’mere and give us a good lookatcha.

   • 1991, Noel McFarlane, “Lucky Singing”, in Fergus Brogan, editor, True to Type: A Collection of Short Stories by Journalists in the Irish Times, page 34:

     Relax, she told me, they only want a lookatcha.

   • 2008, Suzanne Supplee, Artichoke’s Heart, Dutton Books, →ISBN, page 270:

     Why, you don’t even look like yourself! Come over here and let me get a good lookatcha.