loopie
English
Adjective
loopie (comparative more loopie, superlative most loopie)
- (Scotland) deceitful; cunning; sly
- 1825, Archibald Crawfurd, Tales of my grandmother
- The guidwife had repeatedly given Peter the hint to throw the shawl into the bed, as it would be there concealed till the husband was gone; but Peter, the loopie — for who ever saw a packman that was not loopie? — began to think that he might manage to carry off both shawl and buckles […]
- 1825, Archibald Crawfurd, Tales of my grandmother
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