booby
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -uːbi
[edit] Etymology 1
17th Century. Spanish bobo, from Latin balbus ‘stammering’
[edit] Noun
booby (plural boobies)
- A stupid person.
- (by extension) Any of various large tropical seabirds from the genera Sula and Papasula in the gannet family Sulidae, traditionally considered to be stupid.
- 1638 Herbert, Sir Thomas Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique
- At which time, ſome Boobyes, weary of flight, made our Ship their pearch, an animall ſo ſimple as ſuffers any to take her without feare, as if a ſtupid ſenſe made her careleſſe of danger...
- 1638 Herbert, Sir Thomas Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique
[edit] Synonyms
[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
[edit] Translations
stupid person
bird
[edit] Etymology 2
Variant of the earlier bubby. The shortened term boob is a further development from this.
[edit] Noun
booby (plural boobies)
- (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
[edit] Translations
woman’s breast
