None of the various attested forms appear in the OED, in Victor & Dalzellās Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, nor in Websterās New Universal Unabridged Dictionary.
According to the RHD, 'looky' (also 'lookee') is an interjection attested from 1875ā80 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, āis fossilized in looky (here) ā¦ā.
looky
(sometimes humorous, colloquial) Look.
Looky is almost always used imperatively, and followed by "here", "there", or "at".
Source: Wiktionary
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., āthe father of the brideā instead of āthe brideās fatherā
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