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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /luːk/

Etymology 1

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

Verb

looke [1]

  1. to look at
    Synonyms: wiethe, dwyth

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 Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
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