"looky" meaning in English

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Verb

Rhymes: -ʊki Etymology: None of the various attested forms appear in the OED, in Victor & Dalzell’s Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, nor in Webster’s New Universal Unabridged Dictionary. According to the RHD, 'looky' (also 'lookee') is an interjection attested from 1875–80 which is an alternative form of the imperative look ye! Similarly, the linguist Andrew L. Sihler indicates that ye, the now-archaic subjective form of the English 2nd pers. plural pronoun, “is fossilized in looky (here) …”. Head templates: {{head|en|verb}} looky
  1. (sometimes humorous, colloquial) Look. Tags: colloquial, humorous, sometimes Synonyms: lookee, lookie Related terms: looky-loo, lookit
    Sense id: en-looky-en-verb-3lF249bi Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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          "ref": "1876, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer",
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          "text": "1877, Burdette, Robert Jones. The Rise and Fall of the Mustache: And Other ‘Hawk-eyetems’. Burlington Publishing Co., 1877. p. 15. http://books.google.ca/books?id=Q6MEAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA15&dq=lookee&hl=en&sa=X&ei=JQfgUfjxD4akyQH174CgCw&ved=0CFMQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=lookee&f=false\n\"… Cain would shout ‘Oh, lookee, lookee pa! what’s that?’\""
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