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looby Now chiefly dial.|ˈluːbɪ|
Forms: 4–6 loby, -ie, 6 loubie, lowbie, -ye, 7 lubby, loubee, 7– looby.
[Cf. lob n., lubber, and the Teut. cognates mentioned under those words.]
A lazy hulking fellow; a lout; an awkward, stupid, clownish person.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. Prol. 55 Grete lobyes and longe that loth were to swynke. 1529S. Fish Supplic. Beggars (E.E.T.S.) 14 Set these sturdy lobies a brode in the world..to get theire liuing with their laboure. a1550Image Ipocr. iv. 129 in Skelton's Wks. (1843) II. 440 With priors of like place..Great lobyes and lompes. 1577–87Stanyhurst Descr. Irel. 17/2 in Holinshed, Sir, you take me verie short, as long and as verie a lowbie as you imagine to make me. 1629Symmer Spir. Posie i. ix. 30 What is the state then of the sluggard, the lazie Lizzard, and the luskish Lubby? 1681T. Flatman Heraclitus Ridens No. 41 (1713) I. 15 This is but like a great Looby at School, who [etc.]. 1696Phillips s.v. Lob, A great heavy sluggish Fellow is called a Lob, Loubee [1706 Looby], or Lob-cock. 1705Hickeringill Priest-cr. ii. Pref. A iv, Homer—Achilles makes a great strong Looby. 1713Steele Englishman No. 24. 158 [These] are all convincing Arguments to a Country Looby. 1783Johnson in Boswell 20 Apr., A savage, when he is hungry, will not carry about with him a looby of nine years old, who cannot help himself. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. I. 159 A good-for-nought looby, he nettled me sore. 1845Disraeli Sybil (1863) 207, I went once and stayed a week at Lady Jenny Spinner's to gain her looby of a son and his eighty thousand a-year. 1871R. Ellis tr. Catullus xxii. 11 No ditcher e'er appeared more rude, No looby coarser. 1872Geo. Eliot Middlem. xxxv. (1873) 213 While I tell the truth about loobies, my reader's imagination need not be entirely excluded from an occupation with lords. 1886in Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk.
b. attrib. and appositive, passing into adj. Also in comb. looby-like.
1582Stanyhurst æneis iii. (Arb.) 91 Al wee see the giaunt, with his hole flock lowbylyke hagling. 1679Ld. Rochester Epigr. Ld. All-Pride in Roxb. Ballads (1883) IV. 567 A plowman's looby meen, face all awry. 1687Advise to Pestholders ii. 1 in Third Collect. Poems (1689) 21/1 That Looby Duke. 1771T. Hull Sir W. Harrington (1797) I. 143 A country squire, of the looby kind. 1830J. Bee Ess. in Dram. Wks. Foote I. (Cent.), This great, big, overgrown metropolis..like a looby son who has outgrown his stamina. |