OriginShortened lieutenant + -ie.
- informalLieutenant.
“"Dress up that line there," one sergeant with three gold stripes shouted to his company of majors, second "looies," and privates.”
“[…] any more than a second lieutenant in Fort Dix will have a direct involvement with the doings of Congress. Even the "employers" of the ISTs, the security council, should remain as distant from the ”
Formslooies(plural)