a. [f. LOOP sb.1 + -Y.]

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  1.  Full of loops; characterized by loops.

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1856.  Dickens, Lett. (1880), I. 425. Many a hand have I seen with many characteristics of beauty in it—some loopy, some dashy.

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1885.  W. F. Crafts, Sabbath for Man (1894), 109. Such loopy laws net no one. The big fish break them, and the small ones creep through.

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1890.  H. M. Stanley, Darkest Africa, II. xxviii. 236. It is a loopy,… crooked stream.

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1902.  Westm. Gaz., 19 June, 3/2. A loopy sort of braid.

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  2.  Sc. ? Crafty, deceitful.

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1824.  Scott, Redgauntlet, ch. xx. When I tauld him how this loopy lad, Alan Fairford, had served me, he said I might bring an action on the case.

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