What does looky mean?
Looky means (sometimes humorous, colloquial) Look..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(sometimes humorous, colloquial) Look..
1877, Burdette, Robert Jones. The Rise and Fall of the Mustache: And Other ‘Hawk-eyetems’. Burlington Publishing Co., 1877. p. 15. http://books.google.ca/books?id=Q6MEAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA15&dq=lookee&hl=en&sa=X&ei=JQfgUfjxD4akyQH174CgCw&ved=0CFMQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=lookee&f=false "… Cain would shout ‘Oh, lookee, lookee pa! what’s that?’"
Lookee here, Tom, being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be.
"Looky thar!" "All right, I can see that hole, all right, but the argument was whether the earth was round or flat, and I say it's round!"
The old man is cackling. "Looky here, looky here." He's got four little bright coins on his outstretched trembling hand.
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Looky means (sometimes humorous, colloquial) Look..
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1877, Burdette, Robert Jones. The Rise and Fall of the Mustache: And Other ‘Hawk-eyetems’. Burlington Publishing Co., 1877. p. 15. http://books.google.ca/books?id=Q6MEAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA15&dq=lookee&hl=en&sa=X&ei=JQfgUfjxD4akyQH174CgCw&ved=0CFMQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=lookee&f=false "… Cain would shout ‘Oh, lookee, lookee pa! what’s that?’"
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