loobily
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
loobily (comparative more loobily, superlative most loobily)
- (obsolete) awkward; ungainly
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC:
- There was in Wales a great and loobily image, called Darvell Gatherne, of which an old prophecy went that it should burn a forest […]
- 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
- the Mafter fetting his Boys their Leflons, and their Exercifes, and a Loobily Country Fellow
Adverb[edit]
loobily (comparative more loobily, superlative most loobily)
References[edit]
- “loobily”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.