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Looie vs Loopie - What's the difference?

looie | loopie |

As a noun looie

is (informal) lieutenant.

As an adjective loopie is

(scotland) deceitful; cunning; sly.

looie

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (informal) Lieutenant.
  • * 1920 , Journal of the Fifty-Third National Encampment Grand Army of the Republic , Government Printing Office, page 90:
    • "Dress up that line there," one sergeant with three gold stripes shouted to his company of majors, second "looies ," and privates.
  • * 1991 , Schroeck, Robert W., GURPS Supers: I.S.T. , Steve Jackson Games, ISBN 1-55634-192-X, page 5:
    • [...] any more than a second lieutenant in Fort Dix will have a direct involvement with the doings of Congress. Even the "employers" of the ISTs, the security council, should remain as distant from the characters as the Joint Chiefs of Staff are from that second looie .
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    loopie

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (Scotland) deceitful; cunning; sly
  • * 1825 , Archibald Crawfurd, Tales of my grandmother
    • The guidwife had repeatedly given Peter the hint to throw the shawl into the bed, as it would be there concealed till the husband was gone; but Peter, the loopie — for who ever saw a packman that was not loopie ? — began to think that he might manage to carry off both shawl and buckles