loobily
English
editEtymology
editAdjective
editloobily (comparative more loobily, superlative most loobily)
- (obsolete) Awkward; ungainly.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
- There was in Wales a great and loobily image, called Darvell Gatherne, of which an old prophecy went that it should burn a forest […]
- 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
- the Mafter fetting his Boys their Leflons, and their Exercifes, and a Loobily Country Fellow
Adverb
editloobily (comparative more loobily, superlative most loobily)
References
edit- “loobily”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.