Examples
“* gloss for "looby": a clumsy lout, a foolish person.”
Giles Slade: Nothin' From Nothin' Leaves Nothin': Levi Johnston at 19
“You need to challenge your own prejudices with a little more historical sense P from M (and Frank P I'm coming to you too in a minute you fatuous old tosser, oops I swore I wouldn't sink to your level of name-calling Frank, but you just have this effect on people - by the way, who cares what your granny did or didn't say to you you big looby).”
“At my station the tail well and truly wags the dog - for example my boss likes the office tidy - fair enough, so i filled up some confy waste sacks and placed them in a large looby area by the lifts in order to find out where they were to go.”
I Can Tell We’re Going To Be Friends « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
“The government funded quango's, sorry the booze charities funded by HM Govt. will looby the assorted cuntmonkeys.”
Paul Flynn MP libel case losing MP misses the point on beer taxes.
“ No looby coarser; such a shock, a change is there.”
“Widow Precious had plenty of sharp sense to tell her that her children were by no means “pretty dears” to anybody but herself, and to herself only when in a very soft state of mind; at other times they were but three gew-mouthed lasses, and two looby loons with teeth enough for crunching up the dripping-pan.”
“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.”
“People in the looby also see this and they try to get in.”
“I'm not a stupid looby who can't see through false flattery when it's poured on with such ruthlessness.”
“Here we dance, looby, looby, light, the players sway from one foot to the other, throwing the free foot across the other in sort of a balance movement in rhythm to the music.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘looby’.
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Cepstrums
to cepstrumize a word is to reverse its 1st 4 characters in the way that "cepstrum" was derived from "spectrum" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cepstrum...
acedy, stutter, tipster, toosh, spitter, tapster, spatter, tutster, teaser, saeter, sooth, tierer and 202 more...
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Bonkers
List for old and new terms and phrases meaning crazy, nuts, batty, prone to extreme nervousness, etc.
bonkers, crazy, nuts, batty, batchy, bats in the belfry, scatty, crackers, windy, gone crackers, cracked, dingo and 92 more...
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Unsavory characters
absconder, aretaloger, arriviste, avaunter, bamboozler, bandit, banger, barbarian, barmecide, barrator, beldam, blatherskite and 190 more...
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Fellowship
A list where words can mingle with their fellows. Feel free to add any fellas and fellers.
fellow, fellowship, bedfellow, strange bedfellows, Robin Goodfellow, fellow-traveler, research fellow, Odd Fellows, Oddfellows, oddfellows, Oddfellows Hall, The Order of Patr... and 41 more...
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
Edit: I started ma...studdingsail, carronade, mumchance, grumlin-futtocks, crosscat-harpings, holystone, sennit, orlop, orchitis, negus, kevel, altumal and 1112 more...
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Unusual words for Words With Friends
A list of words that WWF recognizes as valid - most are unusual words; some are simply high-scoring.
botel, slipe, jeu, chub, chubs, cote, mure, tittle, dev, loo, hoke, helo and 357 more...
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Bird Wirds: Sundry Nicknames
A list of birders' "shorthand" names, traditional nicknames, non-English names, and obsolete names for feathered creatures worldwide.
Interesting blog entry here on naming U.S. birds.welsh ambassador, goatsucker, french magpie, timberdoodle, butterbutt, popinjay, logcock, old cranky, long john, sprog, butterbum, wedgie and 697 more...
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Gems from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulg...
Citation: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, unabridged from the original 1811 edition, with a foreword by Max Harris. London: Bibliophile Books, 1984.
Original title page: A Dictio...tuzzy-muzzy, half seas over, hugger mugger, hugotontheonbiqui..., doodle sack, juniper lecture, kate, kent street eject..., jack ketch, davy, abel-wackets, three-legged mare and 370 more...
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19 c.
some of the interesting words i've had to look up while reading 19th century lit
maugre, connate, alembic, azote, vaticination, valetudinarian, dight, scutcheon, lammergeyer, chamois, asseverate, prebendary and 199 more...
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Amusing words
interesting words
bonce, furcate, tapioca, tillage, desalinate, garish, litmus, roadhog, azoic, haberdasher, imbroglio, polliwog and 802 more...
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Luck in the Shadows
Words and phrases from Lynn Flewelling's book, Luck in the Shadows.
belly, barbican, pediment, withers, hirsute, oriel, tabard, telesm, thaumaturgy, switch, spargetaction, towheaded and 125 more...
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Old words that deserve revival
anywhen, batten, bedswerver, blashy, brightsome, bub, busk, canty, chuff, croodle, cumberworld, draggle and 42 more...
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Miscellany...
Words that make me giggle
wankle, quixotic, fizgig, tweak, squib, quark, squelch, flume, folderol, crwth, squeegee, wiener and 38 more...
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Spoonyalchemist's List
Cause I figured I should have one. ;)
spoony, lollop, yggdrasil, elysian fields, mesopotamians, flummox, phantasmagoria, mephistophelian, bard, banzai, schadenfreude, alchemist and 14 more...
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Week of October 24
meretricious, dyad, looby, appurtenance, katabatic, gormless, yokel, pillory, parsimonious, hymeneal, corrugation
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perhapsolutely's Words
polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...
Tweets
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hernesheir This word, later akin to crazy, appears as a term for lazy in Langland's 1337 Piers Plowman. Nov 20, 2010
yarb "Thus while I tell the truth about loobies, my reader's imagination need not be entirely excluded from an occupation with lords"
- George Eliot, Middlemarch Feb 20, 2008
chained_bear "'Ruined, ruined, my dinner is quite ruined, and it is all the doing of that long-eared looby Figgins Pocock. There he sits, the illiterate, ill-deedy gowk, next to the Admiral's secretary.'"
--Patrick O'Brian, Treason's Harbour, 95 Feb 19, 2008
jaime_d from Middlemarch. An awkward fellow. Sep 30, 2007