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Looby

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Irish.
Noun
  1. 1
    A large and awkward or clumsy person; an oaf. archaic, dialectal

    "‘Depend upon it, Sir, a savage, when he is hungry, will not carry about with him a looby of nine years old, who cannot help himself.’"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Uncertain. Perhaps from lob (“a large piece, lump”) + -y.

Etymology 2

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Lúbaigh (“descendant of Lúbach”), a byname originally applied to a cunning person, from lúbach (“looped, coiled; crafty, tricky”).

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