Looby

Quick meaning: Looby is a noun meaning (now rare, dialect) A large and awkward or clumsy person; an oaf.

Meaning

(now rare, dialect) A large and awkward or clumsy person; an oaf.

Example Sentences

Thus while I tell the truth about loobies, my reader's imagination need not be entirely excluded from an occupation with lords […].

‘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.’

Word Forms

• loobies

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include loblolly, hoblob, lubber, lobcock, loord, loogan.

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