booby

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Synonyms 1.2.1.2 Derived terms 1.2.1.3 Translations 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.3.1.1 Translations 1.4 Anagrams

[edit] English

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[edit] Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːbi

[edit] Etymology 1

17th Century. Spanish bobo, from Latin balbus ‘stammering’

[edit] Noun

booby (plural boobies)

1. A stupid person.
2. (by extension) Any of various large tropical seabirds from the genera Sula and Papasula in the gannet family Sulidae, traditionally considered to be stupid.

[edit] Synonyms

• Sulid

[edit] Derived terms

• Abbott’s Booby, Papasula abbotti
• Blue-footed Booby, Sula nebouxii
• Brown Booby, Sula leucogaster
• Masked Booby, Sula dactylatra
• Nazca Booby, Sula granti
• Peruvian Booby, Sula variegata
• Red-footed Booby, Sula sula
• Tasman booby

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[edit] Etymology 2

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

[edit] Noun

booby (plural boobies)

1. (slang) a woman’s breast

   At ten o’clock she was lying on the divan with her boobies in her hands. — Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, 1934

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[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: bbooy
• yobbo