单词 | looby-like |
释义 | > as lemmaslooby-like b. attributive and appositive, passing into adj. Also in combination looby-like. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > clumsy or awkward stubblea1300 lubber?1515 awkward1530 unwieldy1530 lubberlike1572 unwieldsome1579 lubberly1580 looby1582 wieldy1588 clumsy1597 ungainly1611 unqueme1611 untowardly1611 clouter-likea1624 hip-shot1642 loobish1648 loobily1655 bumble-arsed1661 clouterly1675 lubbard1679 fumbling1681 sinistrousa1682 maladroit1685 shammockinga1704 ungain1710 splay-footed1716 gawky1759 hobbledehoyish1812 uncouthly1821 nunting1836 shammocky1841 numb1854 awkwardish1860 slummocky?1861 numb-footed1867 gawkish1876 flat-footed1899 brontosaurian1909 shamblya1937 slew-foot1945 ham-footed1960 klutzy1961 dorkus1979 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 63 Al wee see the giaunt, with his hole flock lowbylyke hagling. 1679 Earl of Rochester Epigr. Ld. All-pride in Roxburghe Ballads (1883) IV. 567 A plowman's looby meen, face all awry. 1687 Advise to Pestholders ii. 1 in Third Coll. Poems (1689) 21/1 That Looby Duke. 1771 Hist. Sir William Harrington I. xvi. 151 A country squire, of the looby kind. 1830 ‘J. Bee’ Ess. in S. Foote Dram. Wks. I This great, big, overgrown metropolis..like a looby son who has outgrown his stamina. < as lemmas |
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