Louie
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4.8
- proper noun
- /ˈluːi/
- Informal
- Louie, can you give us a minute and go and talk to Daddy a minute in the other room?
- Louie's story
- Isaac and Louie
- Abt and Louie
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- This is the actual chart that Louie Gohmert held up.
- Like you're one of those people that people are always commenting like bring Louie, bring Louie, bring Louie.
- It's a new medium invented by my friend Louie Anderson.
- He's a representative from the First District of Texas, Ada, whose name is Louie Gohmert.
- And Louie and I talk about this in terms of my show now.
- None, OK, maybe except Louie Gohmert.
- So they got King Louie to convene a panel to investigate Messner.
Examples
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I got a buddy of mine, Louie.
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There he met an old age pensioner called Louie Walsh and The X Factor was born.
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And Louie and I talk about this in terms of my show now.
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You know I like it if you take Louie and Joey to the movies?
Fiction book (1995) -
What advice did Louie give me about pink?
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I know you're sad about Louie.
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"At least you're still alive," said his best friend, Louie, in the locker room after the match.
Fiction book (2000) -
I've got a cousin spells it the same way, and we call him Louie.
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Something exciting is happening for Zoe and Joe, me, Louie, Tanya and Evan.
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Louie is my best friend, and we always have fun together.
Synonyms
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2.1
A special short name people use for someone they care about
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9.9
A friendly name used instead of a person's real name
Idioms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Louie = Lou (semi-transparent) = Lou + ie
The name is formed with the familiar diminutive suffix -ie, but as a proper name it is partly lexicalized rather than fully compositional.
Etymology
Louie is a friendly, short form of Louis, similar to Lewis and Lou, and that name comes from an old German word meaning 'famous' and 'war'. So you can remember Louie as a warm, familiar name that originally meant a 'famous fighter'.