looking
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈlʊkɪŋ/
- present participle of look#English|look
- as the last part of compound adjectives: relating to or having the appearance of.
- 1988 September 12, New York Magazine, page 226
- Good-Looking, Funny Guy — (Not funny-looking, good guy), 36, Jewish, athletic.
- dorky-looking
- 1988 September 12, New York Magazine, page 226
- here's looking at you
- looking glass
- on the outside, looking in
looking (plural lookings)
- The act of one who looks; a glance.
- 2005, Felix Driver, Luciana Martins, Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire (page 162)
- A complicated interplay of lookings and viewings is in play. The staging and performance of the photograph, then, is as much the subject of the photograph as the ostensible subjects […]
- 2005, Felix Driver, Luciana Martins, Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire (page 162)
- (obsolete) The manner in which one looks; appearance; countenance.
- All dreary was his cheer and his looking.
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