Usually means: Clumsy, awkward person; old slang.
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  1. looby: Merriam-Webster
  2. looby: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Looby, looby: Wordnik
  4. Looby, looby: Wiktionary
  5. looby: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. looby: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Looby, looby: Dictionary.com
  8. Looby: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. looby: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Looby: Rhymezone
  11. Looby: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. looby: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. Looby: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  14. looby: FreeDictionary.org
  15. looby: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. looby: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Looby)

▸ noun:  (now rare, dialect) A large and awkward or clumsy person; an oaf.
▸ noun:  A surname from Irish.

Similar:
loblolly, hoblob, lubber, lobcock, loord, loogan, loon, lummox, lummock, slob, more...

Phrases:
looby loo, more...

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loblolly, hoblob, lubber, lobcock, loord, loogan, loon, lummox, lummock, slob, more...

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looby loo, more...



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