Rooky vs Looky - What's the difference?
rooky | looky |
(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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As an adjective rooky
is full of rooks.As a verb looky is
(humorous|colloquial) look.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.