lookee
English
Etymology
Verb
lookee
- animate imperative of look; usually used figuratively or as an interjection.
- 1871, Joseph Sheridan LeFanu, Green Tea; Mr. Justice Harbottle[1]:
- Why, lookee, I asked Doctor Hedstone yesterday if I was like to take a fit any time, and he laughed, and swore I was the last man in town to go off that way."
- 1919, Hildegard G. Frey, The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit[2]:
- Oh, lookee!" she squealed in rapture to the other girls. "
- 1901, Kate Dickinson Sweetser, Ten Boys from Dickens[3]:
- Now lookee here," he said, "you get me a file and you get me wittles; you bring both to me to-morrow morning early, that file and them wittles.
- 1990 May 18, Judith Moore, “My Father's Voice”, in Chicago Reader[4]:
- And mmmm, lookee here!
Synonyms
- (as an interjection): behold; see also Thesaurus:lo