lookee

English

Etymology 1

From look +‎ -ee.

Noun

lookee (plural lookees)

1. One who is looked at.

   Synonyms: gazee, observee

   Coordinate term: looker

   • 1995, Catharina Wulf, Oeil Fauve, page 54:

     The reversal of the direction of the traditional peephole gaze (we see the looker, not the lookee) is only part of this painting's correspondences to Eh Joe; consider, too, the distantiation created by the two focuses: […]

Related terms

• lookee-likee

Etymology 2

From look +‎ 'ee (“pronoun”).

Verb

lookee

1. animate imperative of look; usually used figuratively or as an interjection.
   • 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter I, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 5:

     "Now then, lookee here!" said the man. "Where's your mother?"

   • 1871, Joseph Sheridan LeFanu, Green Tea; Mr. Justice Harbottle‎:

     Why, lookee, I asked Doctor Hedstone yesterday if I was like to take a fit any time, and he laughed, and swore I was the last man in town to go off that way."

   • 1919, Hildegard G. Frey, The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit‎:

     Oh, lookee!" she squealed in rapture to the other girls. "

   • 1901, Kate Dickinson Sweetser, Ten Boys from Dickens‎:

     "Now lookee here," he said, "you get me a file and you get me wittles; you bring both to me to-morrow morning early, that file and them wittles. […] "

     This quote is a reference to Great Expectations (see above)

   • 1990 May 18, Judith Moore, “My Father's Voice”, in Chicago Reader‎:

     And mmmm, lookee here!

Synonyms

• (as an interjection): behold; see also Thesaurus:lo

Related terms

• harkee

Spanish

Verb

lookee

1. inflection of lookear:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative