a. Obs. [f. LOOBY + -LY1.] Looby-like; awkward, clumsy, lubberly.
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., VI. v. False Miracles, § 12. There was in Wales a great and Loobily Image, called Darvell Gatherne.
1756. Toldervy, Hist. 2 Orphans, III. 148. Talked politicks with the landlord, and disputed about religion with three loobily farmers.
1777. H. Carey, Honest Yorkshirem., 13. It’s enough to put any young lady in the pouts, to … force her to marry a great loobily Yorkshire tike.
