booby

The definition of booby is a stupid or childish person, or is slang for a woman's breast.

(noun)

A silly annoying person that no one wants to invite to parties is an example of abooby.
A woman's breast is an example of abooby.

See booby in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun pl. boobies

a stupid or foolish person; nitwit
any of a genus (Sula, family Sulidae) of pelecaniform birds that dive and feed on fish of warm seas

Origin: prob. < Sp bobo, stupid < L balbus, stammering < IE echoic base *bal-bal-

See booby in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun pl. boo·bies

A person regarded as stupid.
Any of several tropical sea birds of the genus Sula, resembling and related to the gannets.

Origin:

Origin: Probably Spanish bobo

Origin: , from Latin balbus, stammering

noun pl. boo·bies
Vulgar Slang

A woman's breast.

Origin:

Origin: Perhaps alteration of obsolete English bubby

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