looby

noun

ˈlü-bē How to pronounce looby (audio)
Definition of loobynext
as in lubber
a clumsy, awkward person although he was a looby physically, he was a towering figure in mathematics

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  1. lubber
  2. lummox
  3. gawk
  4. dub
  5. klutz
  6. lump
Noun
  • Land lubbers hike: Lace up those shoes for a 9 to 11 a.m. excursion on Sunday, Oct. 20, to Ansel’s Cave in The West Woods in Russell Township.
    Joan Rusek, cleveland, 30 Sep. 2019
  • Water-lubbers can easily access freshwater lakes, rural flatland and woodland forests.
    Amy Aumick, OrlandoSentinel.com, 15 May 2018
Definition of lubber
Noun
  • Over nearly two centuries, the herbivore has been imagined as a spike-nosed lummox, inappropriate kangaroo and now, at last, a stiff-tailed, mostly quadrupedal animal.
    Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 20 Apr. 2017
  • Fraser was everywhere in the 1990s and early 2000s: a sweetly handsome, blue-eyed lummox whose starring roles established him as a perpetual naif.
    Ty Burr, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2022
Definition of lummox
Noun
  • Here, the blurring is visual: Sometimes Leonard floats into the past looking like Gere, who wears the character without a shred of self-protection as the lens gawks at his raw skin.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The Esprit's shape, arguably more avant-garde despite its age, consistently pegs the gawk meter.
    John Phillips, Car and Driver, 18 June 2020
Definition of gawk
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  • Predictably enough, when the NFL experimented with Week 1 dual dubs from 2021-23, neither CBS nor Fox managed to put up their usual 25 million-plus numbers.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 13 Dec. 2024
  • If the starting video was made in one of those languages, YouTube will only produce an English dub.
    Wes Davis, The Verge, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of dub
Noun
  • Join for hilarious segments like kids on the naughty list, Christmas klutzes, and those hilariously fed up with the festivities.
    Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 27 Nov. 2024
  • On-the-go photographers, field workers, and hopeless klutzes will want to give this tough drive a strong second look.
    John Burek, PCMAG, 10 July 2024
Definition of klutz
Noun
  • Just in time for Christmas, certain members of Congress are hard at work in their policy shops, fashioning a massive lump of cybersecurity coal with which to gift American users of electronic devices.
    David Williams, National Review, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Ten years ago, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe pulled up alongside a dusty, icy lump the size of a mountain.
    Elise Cutts, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2024
Definition of lump
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