looby

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looby (plural loobies)

  1. (now rare, dialect) A large and awkward or clumsy person; an oaf.
    • 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 1227:
      ‘Depend upon it, Sir, a savage, when he is hungry, will not carry about with him a looby of nine years old, who cannot help himself.’
    • 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book IV, chapter 35:
      Thus while I tell the truth about loobies, my reader's imagination need not be entirely excluded from an occupation with lords [] .

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