looking
The act of one who looks; a glance.
Noun
- The act of one who looks; a glance.
- 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 […] - 2005, Felix Driver, Luciana...
Origin
From Middle English lokynge, lokinge, from Old English lōcung (attested in Old English þurhlōcung), equivalent to look + -ing.
Forms
Verb
- present participle and gerund of look
- as the last part of compound adjectives: relating to or having the appearance of.
- dorky-looking
- 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...
- Good-Looking, Funny Guy — (Not funny-looking, good guy), 36, Jewish, athletic. - 1988 September 12, New York Magazine, page 226:
Origin
From Middle English lokynge, from earlier lokinde, lokende, from Old English lōciende, present participle of Old English lōcian (“to look”), equivalent to look + -ing.
Related
caught looking here's looking at you looking glass not see for looking on the outside, looking in strike out looking what are you looking at
Derived
backward-looking bad-looking fine-looking forward-looking full-looking funny-looking good-looking hardlooking ill-looking inward-looking nice-looking not as green as one is cabbage-looking onlooking plain-looking unfortunate-looking unlooking weird-looking well-looking