Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
From look + -ee.
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:
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| lookees | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
From look + 'ee (“pronoun”).
And mmmm, lookee here!1990 May 18, Judith Moore, “My Father's Voice”, in Chicago Reader:
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:
"Now then, lookee here!" said the man. "Where's your mother?"1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter I, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 5:
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: