booable

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

boo +‎ -able

Adjective[edit]

booable (comparative more booable, superlative most booable)

  1. (colloquial) Suitable for being booed.
    • 1996, Marshall Julius, Action!: The Action Movie A-Z, page 2:
      Thanks, then, to white South Africans, who, before dumping Apartheid, were universally despised and proved instantly booable at the movies.
    • 2000, David Randall, The Universal Journalist, page 1:
      Not for nothing do screenwriters and dramatists, in search of a booable villain, regularly opt for a tabloid reporter. It saves time. They don't have to spend pages establishing a lack of morals []