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Meaning of looky | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C2 Specialized

Definitions

Look.

colloquial, humorous, sometimes

Examples

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?’"”
“"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.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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