looking

Etymology 1

From Middle English lokinge, lokinde, lokande, lokende, from Old English lōciende, present participle of Old English lōcian (“to look”), equivalent to look + -ing.

verb

1. present participle and gerund of look
2. as the last part of compound adjectives: relating to or having the appearance of.
   dorky-looking
   By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country. 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 5, in Death on the Centre Court
   Good-Looking, Funny Guy — (Not funny-looking, good guy), 36, Jewish, athletic. September 12 1988, New York Magazine, page 226

Etymology 2

From Middle English lokinge, lokunge, from Old English *lōcung (attested in Old English þurhlōcung), equivalent to look + -ing.

noun

1. 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 […] 2005, Felix Driver, Luciana Martins, Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire, page 162