loobily

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English

Etymology

From looby +‎ -ly.

Adjective

loobily (comparative more loobily, superlative most loobily)

  1. (obsolete) Awkward; ungainly.
    • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; , London: Iohn Williams , →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
      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 Sare, , →OCLC:
      the Mafter fetting his Boys their Leflons, and their Exercifes, and a Loobily Country Fellow

Adverb

loobily (comparative more loobily, superlative most loobily)

  1. (obsolete) awkwardly

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