different between looby vs nooby

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looby (plural loobies)

(now rare, dialect) A large and awkward or clumsy person; an oaf.
- 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford 2008, p. 1227:
  ‘Depend upon it, Sir, a savage, when he is hungry, will not carry about with him a looby of nine years old, who cannot help himself.’

noob +? -y

nooby (comparative noobier, superlative noobiest)

(Internet slang) Like a noob.
He griefed, spammed, begged to be an administrator and did many other nooby things.
Synonym: noobish

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