different between nooky vs looky

English

Etymology 1

Noun

nooky (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of nookie

Etymology 2

nook +? -y

Adjective

nooky (comparative nookier, superlative nookiest)

1. Like a nook; small and secluded or cosy.
   • 1901, Modern Cemetery (volumes 10-11, page 164)

     […] it may be a little seat in a nooky place, a spring under a tree, a bit of walk by the brookside or a vista amongst the trees.

   • 1909, Edward Payson Powell, The Country Home (page 1053)

     And so you will find that his whole orchard is a quaint and nooky place where one may not only pick apples, but may saunter and rest.

English

Alternative forms

• lookee, lookie

Etymology

None of the various attested forms appear in the OED, in Victor & Dalzell’s Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, nor in Webster’s New Universal Unabridged Dictionary.

According to the RHD, 'looky' (also 'lookee') is an interjection attested from 1875–80 which is an alternative form of the imperative look ye! Similarly, the linguist Andrew L. Sihler indicates that ye, the now-archaic subjective form of the English 2nd pers. plural pronoun, “is fossilized in looky (here) …”.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?ki

Verb

looky

1. (sometimes humorous, colloquial) Look.
   • 1877, Burdette, Robert Jones. The Rise and Fall of the Mustache: And Other ‘Hawk-eyetems’. Burlington Publishing Co., 1877. p. 15. [1]

     "… Cain would shout ‘Oh, lookee, lookee pa! what’s that?’"

   • 1936, The American Mercury

     "Looky thar!" "All right, I can see that hole, all right, but the argument was whether the earth was round or flat, and I say it's round!"

Usage notes

Looky is almost always used imperatively, and followed by "here", "there", or "at".

See also

• lookit

References

• Sihler, Andrew Littleton. Language History: An Introduction. John Benjamins Publishing Co., 2000. p. 6. [2]