present participle and gerund of look
as the last part of compound adjectives: relating to or having the appearance of.
dorky-looking
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 […]
From Middle English lokynge, from earlier lokinde, lokende, from Old English lōciende, present participle of Old English lōcian (“to look”), equivalent to look + -ing.
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