Citations:boobily

English citations of boobily

Adjective

• 1906 June 24, “Cibber as a Critic”, in The Washington Post, number 10,970, Washington, page 4:

  In the solemn formality of Obadiah in the ‘Committee,’ and the boobily heaviness of Lolpoop, in the ‘Squire of Alsatia,’ he seemed the immovable log he stood for!

Adverb

• 1858 September 25, “[no title]”, in Monmouth Inquirer, volume 30 (New Series), number 27, Freehold, N. J., page 2:

  “Charity Begins at Home,” as Mr. Buchanan remarked to Owen Jones, when the latter advised him of that Scotch pipe contract. Mr. Jones is said to have boobily observed in return that if he had given it to the Jersey founders they might have grown too independent and kicked in the traces.—Thoughtful Owen!

• 2004 August 13, Melinda Stevens, “Old style charm in the Park”, in Evening Standard, London: Associated Newspapers Ltd., page 55:

  When my husband arrived (how much more appropriate if it had been by pony and trap, sporting cascades of sideburns), I leaned out of the floor-to-ceiling windows in my bedroom and, having forgotten that I had not lived here all my life, shook at him rather boobily.