English

Verb

lookee

1. An imperative form of look; usually used figuratively or as an interjection.
   • 1871, Joseph Sheridan LeFanu, Green Tea; Mr. Justice Harbottle:

     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."

   • 1919, Hildegard G. Frey, The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit:

     Oh, lookee!" she squealed in rapture to the other girls. "

   • 1901, Kate Dickinson Sweetser, Ten Boys from Dickens:

     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.

   • 1990 May 18, Judith Moore, “My Father's Voice”, in Chicago Reader:

     And mmmm, lookee here!