Definition of "looky"

Lookee here, Tom, being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be.

1876, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

"… Cain would shout ‘Oh, lookee, lookee pa! what’s that?’"

1877, Burdette, Robert Jones. The Rise and Fall of the Mustache: And Other ‘Hawk-eyetems’. Burlington Publishing Co., 1877. p. 15.

"Looky thar!" "All right, I can see that hole, all right, but the argument was whether the earth was round or flat, and I say it's round!"

1936, The American Mercury

The old man is cackling. "Looky here, looky here." He's got four little bright coins on his outstretched trembling hand.

1989, Elizabeth Jolley, The Travelling Entertainer