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Looby

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A simpleton. (Welsh, llob, a dolt.)

“The spendthrift and the plodding looby,

The nice Sir Courtly, and the booby.”


Hudibras: Redivivus (1707).

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Long-tailed
Long Tom Coffin
Long Words
Longboat
Longbow
Longchamps
Longcrown
Longevity
Longius
Longo Intervallo
Looby
Look Alive
Look Black (To)
Look Blue (To)
Look Daggers (To)
Look as Big as Bull Beef (To)
Look before You Leap
Look for a Needle in a Bottle of Hay (To)
Look not a Gift Horse in the Mouth
Look One Way and Row Another (To)
Look through Blue Glasses or Coloured Spectacles