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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—L

Looby

A simpleton. (Welsh, llob, a dolt.)

The spendthrift and the plodding looby,
The nice Sir Courtly, and the booby.

Hudibras: Redivivus (1707).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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