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looby
noun 1name 1
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2LOOBY + NOUN
years
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with
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noun
1
A large and awkward or clumsy person; an oaf.
‘Depend upon it, Sir, a savage, when he is hungry, will not carry about with him a looby of nine years old, who cannot help himself.’
Thus while I tell the truth about loobies, my reader's imagination need not be entirely excluded from an occupation with lords […].
name
1
A surname from Irish.
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‘Depend upon it, Sir, a savage, when he is hungry, will not carry about with him a looby of nine years old, who cannot help himself.’
Wiktionary02
Thus while I tell the truth about loobies, my reader's imagination need not be entirely excluded from an occupation with lords […].
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