looking

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of look
2. as the last part of compound adjectives: relating to or having the appearance of.

   “dorky-looking”

   “By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.”

   “Good-Looking, Funny Guy — (Not funny-looking, good guy), 36, Jewish, athletic.”

noun

1. The act of one who looks; a glance.

   “A complicated interplay of lookings and viewings is in play. The staging and performance of the photograph, then, is as much the subject of the photograph as the ostensible subjects […]”