LOOKY

Etymology

None of the various attested forms appear in the OED, in Victor & Dalzellā€™s Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, nor in Websterā€™s New Universal Unabridged Dictionary.

According to the RHD, 'looky' (also 'lookee') is an interjection attested from 1875ā€“80 which is an alternative form of the imperative look ye! Similarly, the linguist Andrew L. Sihler indicates that ye, the now-archaic subjective form of the English 2nd pers. plural pronoun, ā€œis fossilized in looky (here) ā€¦ā€.

Verb

looky

(sometimes humorous, colloquial) Look.

Usage notes

Looky is almost always used imperatively, and followed by "here", "there", or "at".

Source: Wiktionary



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(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ā€˜the father of the brideā€™ instead of ā€˜the brideā€™s fatherā€™


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