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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--looby This week's theme: words to describe people. looby (LOO-bee) noun An awkward, clumsy, lazy fellow. [From Middle English loby, from lob (bumpkin).] -Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org) "Who could give the looby such airs?" Jonathan Swift; A Dialogue Between Tom and Robin; 1730. X-Bonus A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. -Edgar Watson Howe, novelist and editor (1853-1937)

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