Booby Definition

bo͝obē
boobies
noun
boobies
A stupid or foolish person; nitwit.
Webster's New World
Any of a genus (Sula, family Sulidae) of pelecaniform birds that dive and feed on fish of warm seas.
Webster's New World
A woman's breast.
American Heritage
A male mammary gland that has become enlarged by the influence of estrogen or appears enlarged because of excess fat over the gland.
American Heritage
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Noun

Singular:
booby
Plural:
boobies

Origin of Booby

  • Spanish bobo stupid, foolish, booby (because the seabirds can be caught easily when they alight on ships at sea) from Latin balbus stammering of imitative origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Variant of the earlier bubby. The shortened term boob is a further development from this.

    From Wiktionary

  • 17th Century. Spanish bobo, from Latin balbus (“stammering”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Perhaps alteration of obsolete English bubby

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Booby Sentence Examples

  • He has booby trapped the dams on Iraq's two great rivers and he may have done the same to Iraq's oilfields.

  • At Rostov's suggestion it was agreed that whoever became "King" should have the right to kiss Mary Hendrikhovna's hand, and that the "Booby" should go to refill and reheat the samovar for the doctor when the latter awoke.

  • He has booby trapped the dams on Iraq 's two great rivers and he may have done the same to Iraq 's oilfields.

  • Apart from the duck and her two ducklings there is also a kangaroo and then a blue footed booby.

  • If having a blue-footed booby bouncing around your feet isn't close enough to nature for you, try the spectacular diving and snorkeling.

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