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Looky vs Hooky - What's the difference?

looky | hooky |

As a verb looky

is (humorous|colloquial) look.

As a noun hooky is

absence from school or work.

As an adjective hooky is

full of hooks.

looky

English

Alternative forms

* lookee, lookie

Verb

(head)
  • (humorous, colloquial) Look.
  • * 1876 , Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
    • Lookee here, Tom, being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be.
  • * 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?’"
  • * 1936 , The American Mercury
    • "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!"
  • * 1989 , Elizabeth Jolley, The Travelling Entertainer
    • The old man is cackling. "Looky here, looky here." He's got four little bright coins on his outstretched trembling hand.

    Usage notes

    Looky is almost always used imperatively, and followed by "here", "there", or "at".

    References

    * Sihler, Andrew Littleton. Language History: An Introduction . John Benjamins Publishing Co., 2000. p. 6. [http://books.google.ca/books?id=85zS_w_AaP0C&q=looky
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    • See also

    * lookit

    hooky

    English

    Etymology 1

    Attested in 1848 in New York City. Most likely from Dutch hoekje ("nook, corner; but also 'spot to hide' in hide-and-go-seek"). Formerly, "hoekje spelen" could be used to mean "to play hide-and-go-seek", though the common term for the game nowadays is verstoppertje.

    Noun

  • Absence from school or work.
    • Let’s play hooky and leave school to go to the mall.
    Derived terms
    * play hooky

    Etymology 2

    From

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Full of hooks.
  • Shaped like a hook.