See Also: looker(dictionary)
looker(dictionary)

looker (iou)



looker noun & verb. ME.
[from LOOK verb + -ER1.]
A. noun.
A person who looks after or has charge of something; a shepherd, a farm-bailiff, a steward; (as 2nd elem. of comb.) an official inspector of the specified thing. Now dial. ME.
A person who looks or directs the eyes. Also foll. by adverb or preposition. LME.
A person (occas. a thing) having an appearance or looks of a specified kind. L15.
good-looker: see GOOD adjective.
b. A good-looking person, esp. a woman; a strikingly attractive thing. colloq. L19.
J. Coe Not much of a looker but she had the most fabulous contacts.
Comb.: looker-in (a) a person who looks in on another, a casual visitor; (b) a viewer of television; looker-on a person who looks on, a mere spectator, (cf. onlooker); looker-out in the book-trade, a person who looks out wanted volumes from stock; looker-upper colloq. a person who looks something up.
b. verb trans. & intrans. Tend and guard (farm animals). dial. L19.