lookee

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   One who is looked at.

   • The reversal of the direction of the traditional peephole gaze (we see the looker, not the lookee) is only part of this painting's correspondences to Eh Joe; consider, too, the distantiation created by the two focuses: […]
2. 2

   animate imperative of look

   animate imperative of look; usually used figuratively or as an interjection.

   • "Now then, lookee here!" said the man. "Where's your mother?"
   • Why, lookee, I asked Doctor Hedstone yesterday if I was like to take a fit any time, and he laughed, and swore I was the last man in town to go off that way."
   • Oh, lookee!" she squealed in rapture to the other girls. "

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