Meanings
nounlootie (plural looties)
plural looties · alternative looty
- Indiain pluralAn irregular soldier whose main object was plunder; a marauder.
Hyder Ali's stragglers, or looties as they were called, committed such repeated depradations upon all the European habitations, even to the edge of the works of the fort, that the proprietors removed everything valuable […] .
1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 93
Origin
- Hindiलूटना“to loot”
- Englishlootie
From a derivation of Hindi लूटना (lūṭnā, “to loot”).
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APA
lootie. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lootie
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“lootie.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lootie. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lootie,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lootie.
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