A.Word.A.Day -- looby

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Jan 13, 2006

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Words to describe people

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looby

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(LOO-bee)

noun: An awkward, clumsy, lazy fellow.

[From Middle English loby, from lob (bumpkin).]

"Who could give the looby such airs?"
Jonathan Swift; A Dialogue Between Tom and Robin; 1730.

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. -Edgar Watson Howe, novelist and editor (1853-1937)

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