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looky

or look·ee

[ look-ee ]

/ ˈlʊk i /

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interjection Older Use.

look; look here.

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Origin of looky

First recorded in 1875–80; alteration of imperative look ye!

Words nearby looky

look to one's laurels, lookup, look up and down, look up to, look who's talking, looky, loom, loo mask, looming, loom large, loom-state

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How to use looky in a sentence

But looky here, Huck, who wuz it dat 'uz killed in dat shanty ef it warn't you?
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete|Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Hurley stared at the boy in open-mouthed astonishment: "Looky here, kid, I thought you said you never worked in the woods before!"
Connie Morgan in the Lumber Camps|James B. Hendryx
Looky-here, Tom, being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete|Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
She called to her mother and father to "Come here and looky!"
We Can't Have Everything|Rupert Hughes

Now, looky here, Barb'ry; I'm not a-goin' to give him no sech amount.
The Graysons|Edward Eggleston