Looky vs False - What's the difference?
looky | false |
(humorous, colloquial) Look.
* 1876 , Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
* 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]
* 1936 , The American Mercury
* 1989 , Elizabeth Jolley, The Travelling Entertainer
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Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a verb looky
is (humorous|colloquial) look.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.looky
English
Alternative forms
* lookee, lookieVerb
(head)- Lookee here, Tom, being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be.
- "… Cain would shout ‘Oh, lookee , lookee pa! what’s that?’"
- "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!"
- 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=lookySee also
* lookitfalse
English
Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}