boob

English

Etymology

Short for booby. The noun sense "fool" appears near the beginning of the twentieth century, while the noun sense "breast" dates to around 1945.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuːb/

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• Rhymes: -uːb

Noun

boob (plural boobs)

1. (informal, pejorative) Idiot, fool.
   • 1914, George Vere Hobart, Boobs, as Seen by John Henry, OCLC 14521032, page 75:

     Not having an ear for music it annoys me to hear the boobs squeal.

2. (slang) A breast, especially that of a human adult or adolescent female.
   • 1945, James T Farrell, Judgement Day, OCLC 186789080, page 314:

     Tough luck. Too quick in covering to let them see her boobs.

   • 1974, Ernest Brawley, The Rap, page 256:

     Her boob had fallen out of her nightgown and now lay limp against the stained sheet.

   • 2013, book cover for Mommy Has a Boo Boo in Her Boob by Kim Haskan

     Mommy Has a Boo Boo in Her Boob was written to help families who have been affected by breast cancer.

Translations

idiot, fool

• Finnish: (slang) dorka (fi), (slang) bimbo (fi)
• Italian: babbeo (it) m

• Lojban: bebna

breast (colloquial)

• Arabic: ثَدْي‏‎ m (ṯady)
• Armenian: ծիծ (hy) (cic)
• Belarusian: сі́ська f (sísʹka)
• Betawi: tokét
• Bulgarian: ци́ца (bg) f (cíca)
• Catalan: pit (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 咪咪 (zh) (mīmī)

• Czech: cecek (cs) m, koza (cs) f
• Danish: babs c
• Dutch: tiet (nl) f
• Estonian: tiss
• Finnish: tissi (fi)
• French: nichon (fr) m, lolo (fr) m, néné (fr) m
• Galician: teta (gl) f
• German: Titte (de) f, Möpse (de) pl (usually plural)
• Greek: βυζί (el) n (vyzí)
• Hungarian: cici (hu)
• Indonesian: toket, tetek (id), susu (id)

• Italian: zizza (it) f, capezzolo (it) m, tetta (it) f, zinna (it) f
• Japanese: おっぱい (oppai), ぱいぱい (paipai), ぱいおつ (paiotsu)
• Latvian: pups (lv) m
• Lithuanian: papas m
• Macedonian: цицка f (cicka)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pupp m

  Nynorsk: pupp m

• Persian: ممه‏‎ (fa) (mama)
• Polish: cycek (pl) m
• Portuguese: mama (pt) f
• Russian: си́ська (ru) f (sísʹka), ти́тька (ru) f (títʹka), до́йки (ru) f pl (dójki) (usually plural), буфера́ (ru) m pl (buferá) (usually plural)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сиса f

  Roman: sisa (sh)

• Slovak: cecok m
• Spanish: teta (es) f, macoca f
• Swedish: tutt c, tutte (sv) c, patt (sv) c
• Ukrainian: ци́цька (uk) f (cýcʹka)

Adjective

boob (not comparable)

1. (informal, pejorative) Idiotic, foolish.
   • 1971, Robert Beck, The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim, ISBN 0870674145, page 220:

     Brother, to survive we must strip our total beings of any boob black bourgeoisie values and creampuff attitudes toward the horror in America which we might have absorbed.

Verb

boob (third-person singular simple present boobs, present participle boobing, simple past and past participle boobed)

1. To behave stupidly; to act like a boob.
   • 1969, Colin Watson, The Flaxborough Chronicle, OCLC 26730196, page 250:

     After three hits his cleverness ran out. He boobed.

2. (informal, intransitive) To make a mistake
   • 1969, “Alchemy”, in The Canadian Forum, volume 49, page 211:

     ...the younger generation will not altogether be grateful for the book in which they are contained — especially when he boobs in calling the Weavers a rock ensemble.

Anagrams

• Bobo, bobo