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looking en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /ˈlʊkɪŋ/
• (US) audio

Etymology

From Middle English lokynge, from earlier lokinde, lokende, from Old English lōciende, present participle of Old English lōcian (“to look”), equivalent to look + -ing.

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of look
   form of look
2. as the last part of compound adjectives: relating to or having the appearance of.
   • Good-Looking, Funny Guy — (Not funny-looking, good guy), 36, Jewish, athletic. 1988 September 12, New York Magazine, page 226:
   • dorky-looking
   • By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country. 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 5, in Death on the Centre Court:

Deriveds

ill-looking · unfortunate-looking · bad-looking · hardlooking · fine-looking · unlooking · funny-looking · plain-looking · full-looking · well-looking · nice-looking · forward-looking · inward-looking · weird-looking · backward-looking · onlooking · good-looking · not as green as one is cabbage-looking

Relateds

caught looking · on the outside, looking in · here's looking at you · strike out looking · looking glass · what are you looking at · not see for looking

looking en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• /ˈlʊkɪŋ/
• (US) audio

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. The act of one who looks; a glance.
   • 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:

Forms

Translations (1)

es miramiento (noun)