January 13, 2006 - Friday
 | 12:59 PM - looby booby
Current mood:  silly I am dorky enough to receive the A Word A Day email, but I'm not quite nerdy enough to read each entry.
This one caught my eye. I would have called such a person a "booby," but "looby" is pretty thrilling as it is, especially given its close relation to another favorite word of mine, "bumpkin."
This week's theme: words to describe people.
looby (LOO-bee) noun
An awkward, clumsy, lazy fellow.
[From Middle English loby, from lob (bumpkin).]
"Who could give the looby such airs?"
Jonathan Swift; A Dialogue Between Tom and Robin; 1730. |
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