looke

See also: lõoke and Lõoke

English

Verb

looke (third-person singular simple present lookes, present participle looking, simple past and past participle looked)

  1. Obsolete spelling of look.

Noun

looke (plural lookes)

  1. Obsolete spelling of look.
    • 1868, John Chippendall Montesquieu Bellew, Poets' Corner: A Manual for Students in English Poetry, page 90:
      A griefy shape of Famine mought we see, / With greedy lookes, and gaping mouth that cryed, […]

Anagrams

Yola

Etymology 1

From Middle English loken, from Old English lōcian, from Proto-West Germanic *lōkōn.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /luːk/

Verb

looke [1]

  1. to look at
    Synonyms: wiethe, dwyth
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

looke

  1. alternative form of lhuck
    • 1927, “ZONG O DHREE YOLA MYTHENS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 131, lines 2[2]:
      Fo naar had looke var to be brides,
      Who never had luck to be brides,

References

  1. ^ Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 54
  2. ^ Kathleen A. Browne (1927) “THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD.”, in Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of lreland (Sixth Series)‎[1], volume 17, number 2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
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