loobily
English edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
loobily (comparative more loobily, superlative most loobily)
- (obsolete) awkward; ungainly
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC:
- 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 edit
loobily (comparative more loobily, superlative most loobily)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “loobily”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)