looby
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 5
Definition of looby
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(archaic, dialectal)A large and awkward or clumsy person; an oaf.
“‘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.’”
“Thus while I tell the truth about loobies, my reader's imagination need not be entirely excluded from an occupation with lords […].”
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noun
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(archaic, dialectal)A large and awkward or clumsy person; an oaf.
“‘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.’”
“Thus while I tell the truth about loobies, my reader's imagination need not be entirely excluded from an occupation with lords […].”
name
- A surname from Irish.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Uncertain. Perhaps from lob (“a large piece, lump”) + -y.
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