boob

English

Etymology

Short for booby. The noun sense "breast" dates to 1945, while the noun sense "dummy" dates to 1909.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuːb/

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• Rhymes: -uːb

Noun

boob (plural boobs)

1. (slang) breast, especially human female
2. (informal, pejorative) Idiot, dummy, dork.

Translations

breast (colloquial)

• Armenian: ծիծ (cic)
• Belarusian: сіська f (sísʹka)
• Bulgarian: цица (bg) f (cíca)
• Catalan: pit (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 咪咪 (zh) (mīmī)

• Czech: cecek (cs) m
• Estonian: tiss
• Finnish: tissi (fi)
• French: nichon (fr) m, lolo (fr) m, néné (fr) m
• German: Titte (de) f, Möpse (de) pl (usually plural)
• Hungarian: cici (hu)
• Italian: zizza f, capezzolo (it) m
• 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 (cícka)
• Norwegian: pupp m
• Polish: cycek (pl) m
• Portuguese: mama (pt) f
• Russian: сиська (ru) f (sísʹka), титька (ru) f (títʹka), дойка (ru) f pl (dójki) (usually plural), буфер (ru) m pl (buferá) (usually plural)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сиса f

  Roman: sisa

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

idiot, dummy, dork

• Finnish: (slang) dorka (fi), (slang) bimbo (fi)

• Lojban: bebna

Verb

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

1. (informal, intransitive) To make a mistake

Anagrams

• bobo, Bobo