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looby
English
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -u?bi
Noun
looby (plural loobies)
- (now rare, dialect) A large and awkward or clumsy person; an oaf.
- 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford 2008, p. 1227:
- ‘Depend upon it, Sir, a savage, when he is hungry, will not carry about with him a looby of nine years old, who cannot help himself.’
- 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford 2008, p. 1227:
Anagrams
- booly
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booby
English
Wikispecies
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bu?bi/
- Rhymes: -u?bi
Etymology 1
17th century. From Spanish bobo, from Latin balbus (“stammering”).
Noun
booby (plural boobies)
- A stupid person.
- 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, Act I, [1]
- The daughter is said to be well-bred and beautiful; the son an awkward booby, reared up and spoiled at his mother's apron-string.
- 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1910, Chapter I, p. 74, [2]
- As for the Pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.
- 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, "How Lizzie Was Shamed Right Through," [3]
- She knotted our ribbons very tightly so that we should not lose them,—they pulled the little hairs under our curls and made us "ooch" and wriggle. Then Dede gave us little smacks and called us boobies.
- 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, Act I, [1]
- 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, ?ome Boobyes, weary of flight, made our Ship their pearch, an animall ?o ?imple as ?uffers any to take her without feare, as if a ?tupid ?en?e made her carele??e of danger...
- 1839, Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle, Chapter I, [4]
- We found on St. Paul's only two kinds of birds—the booby and the noddy. The former is a species of gannet, and the latter a tern. Both are of a tame and stupid disposition, and are so unaccustomed to visitors, that I could have killed any number of them with my geological hammer.
- 1638 Herbert, Sir Thomas Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique
- In the game of croquet, a ball that has not passed through the first wicket.
- 1863, Mayne Reid, Croquet, London: C.J. Skeet, p. 33, [5]
- A booby may displace another booby or a bridged ball by roquet, ricochet, or concussion.
- 1863, Mayne Reid, Croquet, London: C.J. Skeet, p. 33, [5]
Synonyms
- (stupid person): Thesaurus:fool
- (large tropical seabird): sulid
Derived terms
- boob
- booby prize
- booby trap
- boobyish
- boobyism
- 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, Sula dactylatra tasmani
Translations
Verb
booby (third-person singular simple present boobies, present participle boobying, simple past and past participle boobied)
- (rare, intransitive) To behave stupidly; to act like a booby.
- 1824 Washington Irving, "Proclamation", Salmagundi volume 1:
- Who lounge and who loot, and who booby about, / No knowledge within, and no manners without;
- 1824 Washington Irving, "Proclamation", Salmagundi volume 1:
- (transitive) To install a booby trap on or at (something); to attack (someone) with a booby trap.
- 1976 "Weekly Almanac", Jet volume 22, page 44:
- Self Boobied. Donald E. Campbell of Merritt Island, Fla., accidentally tripped on one of the shotgun shell booby traps he had installed
- 1976 "Weekly Almanac", Jet volume 22, page 44:
Etymology 2
From the earlier form bubby.
Noun
booby (plural boobies)
- (colloquial) A woman’s breast.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:breast
- 1934, Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer:
- At ten o’clock she was lying on the divan with her boobies in her hands.
- 2008, Richard Uhlig, Boy Minus Girl:
- She is beyond hot: her long, black, curly hair cascades around her naked boobies!
Derived terms
- boob
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: bobi (or from bubby)
Translations
Anagrams
- yobbo
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