FromMiddle Englishlokynge, from earlierlokinde,lokende, fromOld Englishlōciende, present participle ofOld Englishlōcian(“to look”), equivalent tolook +-ing.
looking
- presentparticiple andgerund oflook
- as the last part of compound adjectives: relating to or having the appearance of.
dorky-looking
1935,George Goodchild, chapter 5, inDeath on the Centre Court: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 tennis from all parts of the country.
1988 September 12,New York Magazine, page226:Good-Looking, Funny Guy — (Not funny-looking, good guy), 36, Jewish, athletic.
FromMiddle Englishlokynge,lokinge, fromOld Englishlōcung (attested inOld Englishþurhlōcung), equivalent tolook +-ing.
looking (plurallookings)
- The act of one who looks; aglance.
2005, Felix Driver, Luciana Martins,Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire, page162:A complicated interplay oflookings 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[…]
looking
- alternative form oflokynge
1387–1400,Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Clerke of Oxenfordes Tale”, inThe Canterbury Tales, [Westminster:William Caxton, published1478],→OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor,The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […],[London]: […] [Richard Grafton for]Iohn Reynes […],1542,→OCLC:
