Etymology

looksmatch

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Today it means: A person of equal ranking to another on a scale of physical attractiveness. Full definition →

English match ← Middle English loken ← Old English lōcian
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The story

  1. Proto-West Germanic*lōkōn
  2. Old Englishlōcian
  3. Middle Englishloken
  4. Englishlook
  5. Englishlooks
  6. Englishmatch
  7. English todaylooksmatch

From looks + match.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.