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Looie vs Loosie - What's the difference?

looie | loosie |

As nouns the difference between looie and loosie

is that looie is lieutenant while loosie is an alternative spelling of loosey.

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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    loosie

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 2008 , Barry Paddock, Kristen Brown and Stephanie Gaskell, Loosies’ lousy tax price hike: Cig costs a drag, but may force smokers to quit, New York Daily News, June 15, 2008:
    • Smokers aren’t surprised at the escalating price, reminiscing about recent months gone by when a loosie cost only 25 cents.