"looker" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈlʊk.ɚ/ [General-American], /ˈlʊk.ə/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: En-au-looker.ogg [Australia] Forms: lookers [plural]
Rhymes: -ʊkə(ɹ) Etymology: look + -er Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|look|er|id2=agent noun}} look + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} looker (plural lookers)
  1. (literally) One that looks or is actively looking; a watcher; an observer. Tags: literally Categories (topical): People Translations (one that looks actively): зрител (zritel) [masculine] (Bulgarian), наблюдател (nabljudatel) [masculine] (Bulgarian), katsoja (Finnish), osservatore [masculine] (Italian), patrzący [masculine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-looker-en-noun-JfZjaePb Disambiguation of People: 31 18 33 18 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun), English terms suffixed with -er (occupation) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 30 24 17 28 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun): 29 20 24 27 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er (occupation): 26 17 26 32 Disambiguation of 'one that looks actively': 71 20 6 3
  2. One having a specific look or appearance. Categories (topical): Appearance, People Translations (one having a specific look): näky (Finnish), ilmestys (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-looker-en-noun-RKvmwy5E Disambiguation of Appearance: 22 61 15 2 Disambiguation of People: 31 18 33 18 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun), English terms suffixed with -er (occupation) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 30 24 17 28 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun): 29 20 24 27 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er (occupation): 26 17 26 32 Disambiguation of 'one having a specific look': 20 73 5 2
  3. (slang) Someone or something who is remarkably good-looking. Tags: slang Categories (topical): People Synonyms (good-looking one): beautiful person Translations (slang: good-looking one): fešák [masculine] (Czech), schoonheid (Dutch), hyvännäköinen (Finnish), komistus (Finnish), kaunotar (Finnish), canon [masculine] (French), bellezza [feminine] (Italian), meraviglia [feminine] (Italian), schianto [masculine] (Italian), kjekkas [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), snygging [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-looker-en-noun-5onYX3jY Disambiguation of People: 31 18 33 18 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun), English terms suffixed with -er (occupation) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 30 24 17 28 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun): 29 20 24 27 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er (occupation): 26 17 26 32 Disambiguation of 'good-looking one': 35 16 44 4 Disambiguation of 'slang: good-looking one': 33 16 46 6
  4. A person who pretends to be interested in purchasing something but has no intention of doing so. Categories (topical): People Synonyms: tyre kicker
    Sense id: en-looker-en-noun-gPlfvkoU Disambiguation of People: 31 18 33 18 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun), English terms suffixed with -er (occupation), English terms suffixed with -er (patient) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 30 24 17 28 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun): 29 20 24 27 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er (occupation): 26 17 26 32 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er (patient): 25 16 24 34
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: good looker Related terms: looker-on, onlooker, looker-upper

Inflected forms

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}

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.