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单词 looky
释义

lookyv.

Brit. /ˈlʊki/, U.S. /ˈlʊki/
Forms:

α. 1600s–1700s looky', 1600s– looky, 1700s look'ee, 1700s– lookee, 1800s– lookie, 1800s– luckey (English regional (Isle of Wight).), 1900s– lookey (Irish English).

β. 1800s lucka (English regional (Northumberland)), 1800s lucko (English regional (Lancashire)), 1800s lukka (English regional (Shropshire)), 1900s– looka (English regional (Durham), Irish English, and U.S.), 1900s– look-e (English regional (Hampshire)), 1900s– looker (U.S.).

Origin: Formed withiin English, by conversion. Etymon: look ye at look v. 9c.
Etymology: < look ye at look v. 9c, with reduction of the second element.In some instances the second element may also reflect thee pron. (compare the rarer look thee at look v. 9c), and (in β. forms) perhaps occasionally other pronouns (e.g. thou pron.). Some of the α. forms probably show influence from -y suffix6.
regional and colloquial.
Chiefly in imperative. Used to draw or direct attention; ‘see’, ‘observe’, ‘take note’. Cf. look v. 9.
1.
a. intransitive. With implied or explicit reference to a person or object, or to what one is about to say. In later use U.S.
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1663 R. Head Hic et Ubique i. vi. 18 Looky there Moister.
1696 T. D'Urfey Comical Hist. Don Quixote: 3rd Pt. iii. ii. 32 Why looky, I am, ugh, six times greater than I was too.
1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 206. ⁋2 Look'ee, Jack, I have heard thee sometimes talk like an Oracle.
1746 C. Macklin Henry VII iv. iii. 66 Looky', Lord Bishop, in Behalf of my Neighbours, Countrymen, and Friends, now present, I speak.
1768 O. Goldsmith Good Natur'd Man iii. 31 Looky, Sir, I have arrested as good men as you in my time.
1818 A. N. Royall Let. 8 Jan. in Lett. from Alabama (1830) xxii. 52 My servant, behind us, cried out ‘Looky! looky! what a great river!’
1850 Harper's Mag. Sept. 459/1 Looky there!—isn't that a man's head?
1904 R. Hughes Real N.Y. x. 196 And would you looky at them teams—and street cars—where's the trolley?—underground?
1936 M. Hull Cannery Anne x. 251 Looky, look at the silver fence!
1950 Boys' Life Dec. 27/1 Now looky, Peeps, you take it easy on that.
2007 M. Evans For Love of Horse ii. 42 Looky, looky, looky, what a horse.
b. intransitive. More emphatically looky here (also look-a-here). Also as a rebuke, or introducing a protest, reprimand, order, etc. Cf. look here at look v. 9a. Chiefly U.S.rare before mid 19th cent.
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1736 J. Dorman Female Rake: Ballad Comedy i. ii. 11 Looky' here, Mrs. Phillis; will not this do?
1844 ‘J. Slick’ High Life N.Y. I. xiii. 199 Look a here,..you needn't larf, nor try to come your soft sodder over me.
1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend I. ii. xiv. 292 ‘Now, lookee here, my dear,’ returned old Betty,—‘asking your excuse for being so familiar’.
1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer x. 94 And besides, look-a-here—maybe that whack done for him!
1925 E. O'Neill Desire under Elms i. ii. 20 Looky here! Ye'd oughtn't t' said that, Eben.
1943 ‘C. Dickson’ She died a Lady v. 38 Looky here... Burn it all, all I was tryin' to do was see what she'd do flat out on an open road.
1973 Black World Apr. 62 Lookahere Sammy... I'm glad to see ya.
2009 T. Hernandez Pimp's Life iii. 17 Looky here, y'all, I gota take this call upstairs.
2. transitive. U.S. With interrogative clause as object. Cf. look v. 9b.
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the mind > attention and judgement > attention > notice, observation > observe, note [verb (transitive)]
markc1175
note?c1225
heedc1275
apperceivec1300
spyc1380
notec1390
notac1392
registera1393
considerc1400
notifya1425
animadvert?a1475
mind1490
adnote1558
observe1560
quote1560
remark1581
to take note1600
apprehenda1634
to take cognizance of1635
animadverse1642
notice1660
to pass in review1697
smoke1716
cognize1821
spot1848
looky1900
1900 Ainslee's Mag. Dec. 416/2 Looky what he brought me from New York.
1946 Billboard 21 Dec. 57/2 (advt.) Looky what I got!
1986 Chicago Tribune 5 Sept. (Tempo section) 6/2 (comic strip) Looky what Mommy got fer Tater down at th' general store.
2006 D. Williamson Singing with Top Down xxii. 262 Well, well, will you looky who's here?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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