Noun: looby
| Singular | looby |
| Plural | loobies |
Sample Sentences
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‘Depend upon it, Sir, a savage, when he is hungry, will not carry about with him a looby of nine years old, who cannot help himself.’ [1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 1227:]
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Thus while I tell the truth about loobies, my reader's imagination need not be entirely excluded from an occupation with lords […]. [1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book IV, chapter 35:]
Nouns inflected like looby
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Uncertain. Perhaps from lob (“a large piece, lump”) + -y.
Verbs referencing "looby"
French Nouns
loche.