Looby.
A simpleton. (Welsh, llob, a dolt.)
“The spendthrift and the plodding looby,
A simpleton. (Welsh, llob, a dolt.)
“The spendthrift and the plodding looby,
Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.