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English
Verb
looke (third-person singular simple present lookes, present participle looking, simple past and past participle looked)
- Obsolete spelling of look.
Noun
looke (plural lookes)
- Obsolete spelling of look.
1868, John Chippendall Montesquieu Bellew, Poets' Corner: A Manual for Students in English Poetry, page 90:A griefy shape of Famine mought we see, / With greedy lookes, and gaping mouth that cryed, […]
Anagrams
Yola
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English loken, from Old English lōcian, from Proto-West Germanic *lōkōn.
Verb
looke
[1]
- to look at
- Synonyms: wiethe, dwyth
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Noun
looke
- Alternative form of lhuck
1927, “ZONG O DHREE YOLA MYTHENS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 131, lines 2[2]:Fo naar had looke var to be brides,- Who never had luck to be brides,
References
- ^ Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 54
- ^ Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland