looking

looking

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlʊkɪŋ/

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• Hyphenation: look‧ing

Verb

looking

1. present participle of look
   • 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 5, in Death on the Centre Court:

     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.

   • 1988 September 12, New York Magazine, page 226

     Good-Looking, Funny Guy — (Not funny-looking, good guy), 36, Jewish, athletic.

Derived terms

• good-looking

Related terms

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

Noun

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 […]

2. (obsolete) The manner in which one looks; appearance; countenance.
   • Chaucer

     All dreary was his cheer and his looking.