Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An awkward, clumsy fellow; a lubber.
- noun The ruddy duck, Erismatura rubida.
- Lubberly; gawky.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An awkward, clumsy fellow; a lubber.
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- noun an
awkward orclumsy person
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Examples
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* gloss for "looby": a clumsy lout, a foolish person.
Giles Slade: Nothin' From Nothin' Leaves Nothin': Levi Johnston at 19 2009
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You need to challenge your own prejudices with a little more historical sense P from M (and Frank P I'm coming to you too in a minute you fatuous old tosser, oops I swore I wouldn't sink to your level of name-calling Frank, but you just have this effect on people - by the way, who cares what your granny did or didn't say to you you big looby).
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The government funded quango's, sorry the booze charities funded by HM Govt. will looby the assorted cuntmonkeys.
Paul Flynn MP libel case losing MP misses the point on beer taxes. FIDO The Dog 2009
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At my station the tail well and truly wags the dog - for example my boss likes the office tidy - fair enough, so i filled up some confy waste sacks and placed them in a large looby area by the lifts in order to find out where they were to go.
I Can Tell We’re Going To Be Friends « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007
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No looby coarser; such a shock, a change is there.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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No looby coarser; such a shock, a change is there.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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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.
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Widow Precious had plenty of sharp sense to tell her that her children were by no means “pretty dears” to anybody but herself, and to herself only when in a very soft state of mind; at other times they were but three gew-mouthed lasses, and two looby loons with teeth enough for crunching up the dripping-pan.
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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People in the looby also see this and they try to get in.
partygirl Diary Entry partygirl 2001
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I'm not a stupid looby who can't see through false flattery when it's poured on with such ruthlessness.
Tender Rebel Lindsey, Johanna 1988
jaime_d commented on the word looby
from Middlemarch. An awkward fellow.
October 1, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word looby
"'Ruined, ruined, my dinner is quite ruined, and it is all the doing of that long-eared looby Figgins Pocock. There he sits, the illiterate, ill-deedy gowk, next to the Admiral's secretary.'"
--Patrick O'Brian, Treason's Harbour, 95
February 19, 2008
yarb commented on the word looby
"Thus while I tell the truth about loobies, my reader's imagination need not be entirely excluded from an occupation with lords"
- George Eliot, Middlemarch
February 20, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word looby
This word, later akin to crazy, appears as a term for lazy in Langland's 1337 Piers Plowman.
November 21, 2010