lootie

English

Etymology

From a derivation of Hindi लूटना (lūṭnā, “to loot”).

Noun

lootie (plural looties)

  1. (India, chiefly in the plural) An irregular soldier whose main object was plunder; a marauder.
    • 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 93:
      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 […] .

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