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lookee

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English

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Etymology 1

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From look +‎ -ee.

Noun

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lookee (plural lookees)

  1. One who is looked at.
    Synonyms: gazee, observee
    Coordinate term: looker
    • 1995, Catharina Wulf, Oeil Fauve, page 54:
      The reversal of the direction of the traditional peephole gaze (we see the looker, not the lookee) is only part of this painting's correspondences to Eh Joe; consider, too, the distantiation created by the two focuses: []
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Etymology 2

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From look +‎ 'ee (pronoun).

Verb

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lookee

  1. animate imperative of look; usually used figuratively or as an interjection.
    • 1871, Joseph Sheridan LeFanu, Green Tea; Mr. Justice Harbottle[1]:
      Why, lookee, I asked Doctor Hedstone yesterday if I was like to take a fit any time, and he laughed, and swore I was the last man in town to go off that way."
    • 1919, Hildegard G. Frey, The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit[2]:
      Oh, lookee!" she squealed in rapture to the other girls. "
    • 1901, Kate Dickinson Sweetser, Ten Boys from Dickens[3]:
      Now lookee here," he said, "you get me a file and you get me wittles; you bring both to me to-morrow morning early, that file and them wittles.
    • 1990 May 18, Judith Moore, “My Father's Voice”, in Chicago Reader[4]:
      And mmmm, lookee here!
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Spanish

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Verb

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lookee

  1. inflection of lookear:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative