looby
Americannoun
-
loobies
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of looby
First recorded in 1350–1400, looby is from the Middle English word loby. See lob 1, lubber
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
“And is the looby with his regiment or staying here?”
From Janice Meredith by Paul Leicester Ford
Come, then, I will help; mas, master, I think his mother song looby to him, he is so heavy.
From Locrine/Mucedorus by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
They first join hands and dance round, singing— Here we dance Looby, looby, Here we dance Looby light, Here we dance Looby, looby, All on a Saturday night.
From What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
"Now, you looby," said the lawyer, "cannot you conceive that your business can be nothing to Colonel Mannering, but that he may not choose to have these great ears of thine regaled with his matters?"
From Guy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott
Come, then, I will help; mass, master, I think His mother sang looby to him, he is so heavy.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
