释义 |
lookit, int. and v. U.S. colloq.|ˈlʊkɪt| [f. look v. with arbitrary final element.] a. int. Listen! b. v. trans. Only in imp.: look at (something or someone).
1917Dialect Notes IV. 396 Look-at, used among school children for look!.. Cf. look-it in Mass., Mich. 1925T. Dreiser Amer. Trag. (1926) i. xiv. 103 Oh, isn't that just the classiest, darlingest little coat you ever saw! Oh, do look at those sleeves... Lookit the collar. And the lining! And those pockets! 1926S.P.E. Tract xxiv. 124 Lookit, listen to me. 1927M. Ostenso Mad Carews (1929) iv. 49 But lookit! Lookit the nice stockin's Mrs. Bowers made for ye. 1938D. Baker Young Man with Horn iv. iv. 242 ‘Lookit the jig-men,’ Olga said. ‘I thought you'd give us the go-by.’ 1966M. Brewer Man against Fear i. 8 Lookit my hair—whiter it gets every day. 1968[see Jeeze int.]. 1972D. Bloodworth Any Number can Play xxiii. 231 Just get a load of that stuff, will you? It's not even killing the lousy jungle, lookit. It's bringing it alive! |