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plural lookees
One who is looked at. quotations examples
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: […]
1995, Catharina Wulf, Oeil Fauve, page 54
animate imperative of look; usually used figuratively or as an interjection. quotations examples
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."
1871, Joseph Sheridan LeFanu, Green Tea; Mr. Justice Harbottle
Oh, lookee!" she squealed in rapture to the other girls. "
1919, Hildegard G. Frey, The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit
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.
1901, Kate Dickinson Sweetser, Ten Boys from Dickens
And mmmm, lookee here!
1990 May 18, Judith Moore, “My Father's Voice”, in Chicago Reader