Meanings
lookee1
plural lookees
- One who is looked at.
The reversal of the direction of the traditional peephole gaze (we see the looker, not the lookee) is only part of this painting's correspondences to Eh Joe; consider, too, the distantiation created by the two focuses: […]
1995, Catharina Wulf, Oeil Fauve, page 54
lookee2
- animateimperativeanimate imperative of look; usually used figuratively or as an interjection.
And mmmm, lookee here!
1990 May 18, Judith Moore, “My Father's Voice”, in Chicago Reader4 more examples
"Now then, lookee here!" said the man. "Where's your mother?"
1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter I, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 5Why, lookee, I asked Doctor Hedstone yesterday if I was like to take a fit any time, and he laughed, and swore I was the last man in town to go off that way."
1871, Joseph Sheridan LeFanu, Green Tea; Mr. Justice HarbottleOh, lookee!" she squealed in rapture to the other girls. "
1919, Hildegard G. Frey, The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit"Now lookee here," he said, "you get me a file and you get me wittles; you bring both to me to-morrow morning early, that file and them wittles. […]"
1901, Kate Dickinson Sweetser, Ten Boys from DickensSynonyms: behold
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