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looker-on

[ loo k-er-on, -awn ]

/ ˌlʊk ərˈɒn, -ˈɔn /

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noun, plural look·ers-on.

a person who looks on; onlooker; witness; spectator.

Words nearby looker-on

look-through, lookalike, lookdown, lookee, looker, looker-on, lookie-likie, looking, looking glass, looking-glass self, lookism

Origin of looker-on

1530–40; look on + -er¹

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for looker-on

It was Corp who had done it, and Tommy had been the looker-on.
Tommy and Grizel|J.M. Barrie
Roulette is a little more amusing, as it is more intelligible to the looker-on.
Stray Studies from England and Italy|John Richard Greene
I ought to have known that I was only fit to be a looker-on when I fell at the first fence.
The Tidal Wave and Other Stories|Ethel May Dell
For this reason whenever this looker-on took contact with things he attracted attention.
Victory|Joseph Conrad

Were it my nature to be other than a looker-on in life, I would attempt your rescue.
Beneath an Umbrella (From "Twice Told Tales")|Nathaniel Hawthorne