looby

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• Rhymes: -uːbi

looby (plural loobies)

1. (now rare, dialect) A large and awkward or clumsy person; an oaf.
   • 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford 2008, p. 1227:

     ‘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.’

• booly