lookee
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- interjection
- /lʊˈki/
- Informal
:
¡mira!
- Hey, lookee at that beautiful sunset!
- Oh, lookee
- lookee here
- Well, lookee
And I said to him, look, let's go.
- And I said to him, look, let's go.
- And then you say, look, sweetie, this is a WUG.
- This is impressive, you know, Like look ma, no lag.
- And I was like, look, we're doing this name thing.
Examples
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"Well, lookee here, another bathing suit," the judge says when she comes out wearing a polka-dot bikini.
Fiction book (2002) -
And I said to him, look, let's go.
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Well, well, well, look what we have here.
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And I was like, look, we're doing this name thing.
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Oh hey, whoa, hey look, the big screen works nice.
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If I click that button now, look, nothing, nothing.
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What he would say before is, look, I'm here.
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And then the last thing I've got to show you, look how cool this is.
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Well lookee here, we found ourselves an Overwatch.
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Oh, lookee here.
Synonyms
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6.9
To get a person's attention before saying something important or angry
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9.0
A word people say to call someone's attention to something nearby
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9.9
A short shout people use to greet someone or get their attention
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9.9
You say it to get someone to look at something you see
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9.9
People say this to get someone's attention or introduce a statement, often showing annoyance
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9.9
A spoken call in Spanish used to get someone's attention
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9.9
A loud old-fashioned call to get someone's attention
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9.9
A short shout showing surprise or asking for attention
Tell someone to pay attention to what you say or point out
Say this to get someone to look over there
A Latin word used to say 'look' and make someone notice something
Surface Forms
Morphology
lookee = look (semi-transparent) = look + ee
Form is clearly 'look' + a colloquial suffix '-ee', but '-ee' here is nonstandard and used playfully, so learners may not predict the exact pragmatic use.
Etymology
Lookee is a playful form of look with the added ending -ee, used like a friendly 'look here' to get someone's attention. So it works as a quick, excited exclamation meaning 'look' or 'see'.