lookee

English

Etymology 1

look +‎ -ee

Noun

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: […]

Related terms

• lookee-likee

Etymology 2

look +‎ 'ee (“pronoun”)

Verb

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!

Synonyms

• (as an interjection): behold; see also Thesaurus:lo

Related terms

• harkee

Spanish

Verb

lookee

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