“looketh” is a form of
look
[lɵk] verb, interjection, noun, proper noun
Forms looks looking looked lookest lookedst looketh
- verb (intransitive) As an intransitive verb, often with “at”. “They kept looking at me.”
- verb (transitive, colloquial) As a transitive verb, often in the imperative; chiefly takes relative clause as direct object. “Look what you did to him!”
- verb To appear, to seem. “It looks as if it’s going to rain soon. or It looks like it’s going to rain soon. or It looks like rain [is coming].”
- verb (copulative) To give an appearance of being. “What a fright you looked in that hideous outfit.”
- verb (intransitive, often with “for”) To search for, to try to find.
- verb To face or present a view. “The hotel looks over the valleys of the Hindu Kush.”
- verb To expect or anticipate. “I look to each hour for my lover’s arrival.”
- verb (transitive) To express or manifest by a look.
- interjection Pay attention. “Look, I'm going to explain what to do, so you have to listen closely.”
- noun The action of looking; an attempt to see. “Let’s have a look under the hood of the car.”
- noun (often plural) Physical appearance, visual impression. “She got her mother’s looks.”
- noun A facial expression. “He gave me a dirty look.”
- proper noun A surname transferred from the given name.
- proper noun A surname from Chinese.
Synonyms
behold clock geek kool regard squizz take a butcher's take a dekko take a gander vada viddy view hey listen listen up look at me see so well gander expression aspect facial expression face looking looking at spirit tone feel feeling
Etymology
From Middle English loken, lokien, from Old English lōcian, from Proto-West Germanic *lōkōn. Further origin unknown, no certain cognates outside Germanic. Cognate with Scots luke, luik, leuk (“to look, see”), West Frisian lôkje, loaitsje (“to look”), Dutch loeken (“to look”), German Low German löken. Likely also related to German lugen (“to peek”), Alemannic German luege (“to look”), Yiddish לוגן (lugn).
From Luke (“a given name”).
From Cantonese 陸 /陆 (luk⁶, “a surname”).
Webster’s 1913
- verb To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; --with various prepositions, often in a special or figurative sense. See Phrases below.
- verb To direct the attention (to something); to consider; to examine; as, to look at an action.
- verb To look at; to turn the eyes toward.
- verb To seek; to search for. [Obs.]
Etymology [OE. loken, AS. locian; akin to G. lugen, OHG. luogen.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “look”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details