lookee

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noun

One who is looked at.

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Meanings

lookee1

nounlookee (plural lookees)

plural lookees

  1. 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

    Synonyms: gazee, observee

lookee2

verb
  1. 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 Reader
    4 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 5

    Why, 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 Harbottle

    Oh, 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 Dickens

    Synonyms: behold

Synonyms & antonyms

nounOne who is looked at.

Origin

lookee · verb

From look + 'ee (“pronoun”).

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APA

lookee. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lookee

MLA

“lookee.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lookee. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lookee,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lookee.

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