lookee
English
Etymology 1
From look + -eeCategory:English terms suffixed with -ee#LOOKEE.
Noun
lookee (plural lookees)Category:English lemmas#LOOKEECategory:English nouns#LOOKEECategory:English countable nouns#LOOKEECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#LOOKEECategory:Pages with entries#LOOKEECategory:Pages with 2 entries#LOOKEE
- One who is looked at.
- 1995, Catharina Wulf, Oeil Fauve, page 54:
- The reversal of the direction of the traditional peephole gaze (we see the looker, not the lookee) is only part of this painting's correspondences to Eh Joe; consider, too, the distantiation created by the two focuses: […]Category:English terms with quotations#LOOKEE
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Etymology 2
From look + 'ee (“pronoun”)Category:English compound terms#LOOKEE.
Verb
lookeeCategory:English lemmas#LOOKEECategory:English verbs#LOOKEECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#LOOKEECategory:Pages with entries#LOOKEECategory:Pages with 2 entries#LOOKEE
- animate imperative of look; usually used figuratively or as an interjection.
- 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter I, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 5:
- "Now then, lookee here!" said the man. "Where's your mother?"Category:English terms with quotations#LOOKEE
- 1871, Joseph Sheridan LeFanu, Green Tea; Mr. Justice Harbottle:
- Why, lookee, I asked Doctor Hedstone yesterday if I was like to take a fit any time, and he laughed, and swore I was the last man in town to go off that way."Category:English terms with quotations#LOOKEE
- 1919, Hildegard G. Frey, The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit:
- Oh, lookee!" she squealed in rapture to the other girls. "Category:English terms with quotations#LOOKEE
- 1901, Kate Dickinson Sweetser, Ten Boys from Dickens:
- "Now lookee here," he said, "you get me a file and you get me wittles; you bring both to me to-morrow morning early, that file and them wittles. […] "Category:English terms with quotations#LOOKEE
- 1990 May 18, Judith Moore, “My Father's Voice”, in Chicago Reader:
- And mmmm, lookee here!Category:English terms with quotations#LOOKEE
Synonyms
- (as an interjection): behold; see also Thesaurus:lo
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Spanish
Verb
lookeeCategory:Spanish non-lemma forms#LOOKEECategory:Spanish verb forms#LOOKEECategory:Spanish terms spelled with K#LOOKEECategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#LOOKEECategory:Pages with entries#LOOKEECategory:Pages with 2 entries#LOOKEE
- inflection of lookear: