• IPA: /ˈlʊkɪŋ/

From Middle English lokinge, lokinde, lokande, lokende, from Old English lōciende, present participle of Old English lōcian, equivalent to look + -ing.

1. Present participle and gerund of look
2. as the last part of compound adjectives: relating to or having the appearance of.

   dorky-looking

• caught looking
• here's looking at you
• looking glass
• on the outside, looking in

• not see for looking
• strike out looking
• what are you looking at

From Middle English lokinge, lokunge, from Old English *lōcung (attested in Old English þurhlōcung), equivalent to look + -ing.

looking (plural lookings)

1. 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 […]