Booby

Definition: Booby

Booby

Noun

1. An ignorant or foolish person.

2. Small tropical gannet having a bright bill or bright feet or both.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "booby" was first used: 1599. (references)

Etymology: Booby \Boo"by\ (b[=oo]"b[y^]), noun; plural Boobies(-b[i^]z). [Spanish bobo dunce, idiot; compare to Latin balbus stammering, English barbarous.]. (references)

Literature

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Booby

Fool

Noun: fool, idiot, tomfool, wiseacre, simpleton, witling, dizzard, donkey, ass; ninny, ninnyhammer; chowderhead, chucklehead; dolt, booby, Tom Noddy, looby, hoddy-doddy, noddy, nonny, noodle, nizy, owl; goose, goosecap; imbecile; gaby; radoteur, nincompoop, badaud, zany; trifler, babbler; pretty fellow; natural, niais.

Crosswords: Booby

Nice booby trap (Who Framed Roger Rabbit; writing credit: Gary K. Wolf; Jeffrey Price)

She spent so much time trying to think of something, they finally had to stash her away in the booby hatch (Evil Under the Sun; writing credit: Agatha Christie; Anthony Shaffer)

Why is the booby bird called the booby bird (The Hollywood Squares; writing credit: Gary Johnson)

Booby traps (Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III; writing credit: Kim Henkel; Tobe Hooper)

Who booby trapped a dead end (Angel; writing credit: Letícia Dornelles)

I see booby grinning (Hey Ma; performing artist: Cam'ron)

Booby Trap (1970)

Jasper's Booby Traps (1945)

Booby Socks (1945)

Nanna & Lil' Puss Puss in 'The Booby Trap' (1997)

Booby Prize (1995)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Booby Birds: Let Them Fly Free (reference)

• Booby Hatch (reference)

• Booby Trap (reference)

• Booby Trap Identification and Response Guide for Law Enforcement Personnel (reference)

• Booby Trapped (Clue Books, No 6) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Booby Trap / The Takers (reference)

• Booby Hatch (reference)

• Star Trek - The Next Generation, Episode 54: Booby Trap (reference)

• Three Stooges: Cookoo Cavaliers also includes Booby Dupes and Busy Buddies (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Booby Trap (reference)

• Booby Trap Ep [CD-SINGLE] [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Operation Booby Trap (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A blue-footed booby stops for a rest on the NOAA Ship RESEARCHER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A booby hatchery on Helens Reef Island. Credit: Small World.

A baby booby - only its mother would love that face. Credit: Small World.

Ornithologist tagging a booby on Bird Island. Credit: Small World.

Galapagos sea lion - Zalophus californianus wollebacki and blue-footed booby - Sula nebouxii. Credit: Small World.

A blue-footed booby - Sula nebouxii and nesting waved albatross - Diomedea irrorata. Credit: Small World.

Masked booby - Sula dactylatra - tending nest. Credit: Small World.

Red-footed booby - Sula sula. Credit: Small World.

Furlough "Booby Trap!" : No is the best tactic: the next, PROphylactic!. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Booby trap?. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Human Rights

Sri Lanka

Landmines, booby traps, and unexploded ordnance pose a problem to resettlement of displaced persons and rebuilding. (references)

Bolivia

On October 7, a 9-year-old girl was injured severely by a booby trap apparently intended for security forces; a man was arrested and charged with involvement in the incident. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "booby": Booby gannet ♦ booby hatch ♦ Booby hut ♦ Booby hutch ♦ booby prize ♦ booby trap ♦ booby trraped. Additional references.

Beginning with "booby": booby-trap, booby-trapped, booby-trapping, booby-traps.

Albanian

budalla (anserine, anserous, asinine, ass, blunderhead, brainless, cabbage-head, chuckle-head, clod, cloddish, clod-poll, cockeyed, daft, dense, Dick, dim witted, dimwit, dumb, dumbbell, fathead, fool, gaby, gaga, goof, goofy, goon, Goosey, gowk, half wit, idiot, idle-headed, imbecile, jobbernowl, jolterhead, josser, juggins, loon, mindless, moke, muff, mutton head, mutton-headed, nerd, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, nut, owl, pin head, pumpkin-head, sheep's head, silly, slow witted, softhead, soft-headed, softy, spoony, stupid, tomfool, tom-noddy, witless), trap (cockeyed, Dick, ditch, Dong, dope, duffer, dumbbell, ferry, float, moron, pontoon, prick, prune, raft, sap, sap-head, snare), loço (fool, ninny, simpleton). (various references)

Arabic 

‏طائر بحري, ‏المغفل (boob, daw, dullard, dunce, dunderhead, dupe, featherbrain, gaby, gander, gawk, idiot, jackass, lout, lunkhead, moron, mug, mugful, mutt, nincompoop, ninny, noodle, numskull, simpleton, sucker, zany), ‏المعتوه (bedlamite, boob, daft, idiot, natural), ‏الأطيش, ‏الأبله (blockhead, cake, cloddish, dolt, goof, goon, half wit, idiot, moron, natural), ‏أضعف الطلاب. (various references)

Bulgarian 

глупак (bird brained, blinker, boeotian, bonehead, boob, calf, chuckle-head, clod, clot, coot, dodo, dotterel, driveler, dummy, fathead, flat, fool, gaby, gawk, goof, goon, gowk, greenhorn, gull, hammerhead, jackass, jobbernowl, lack-brain, lame brain, leather-head, lunkhead, muggins, mutt, mutton head, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, nutter, oaf, pudding-head, pumpkin-head, sap, sap-head, schmo, schnook, sheep's head, silly, simp, simple, simpleton, spoon, stupe, stupid, thickhead, tomfool, twit, witling, wittol, zany, zombie), наркотично средство (stupefacient), морска птица, бунак (noodle). (various references)

Czech

hlupák (ass, blockhead, chump, dolt, dotterel, dottrel, dunce, dupe, fool, gaby, half wit, idiot, ignoramus, jobbernowl, leather-head, loggerhead, pudding-head, sap-head, simpleton, thick-head, tomfool). (various references)

Danish

skydelem (booby hatch), minefælde (booby trap), luremine (booby trap). (various references)

Dutch

schuifluik (booby hatch), Abbott-rotspelikaan (Abbots's booby). (various references)

Finnish

kulkuluukku (booby hatch). (various references)

French

ballot, bêta, oiseau de la mer, nigaud, le plus faible étudiant. (various references)

German

Tölpel (dolt, fool, gannet, gawk, hick, jay, muddler, rube, slob, yokel). (various references)

Greek 

βλάκασ (chump, coot, dimwit, dolt, dope, duffer, gander, goof, goon, gudgeon, ignoramus, imbecile, jackass, lummox, moron, mutt, nincompoop, noodle, oaf, simp, simpleton, slob, stupid, sucker, tomfool, zany), μπούφοσ (chump, gawk, sideboard), ηλίθιοσ (clot, cretin, dopey, dull, dumb, fool, gawky, goofy, goon, idiot, idiotic, imbecile, mooncalf, moronic, nitwit, poky, sap-head, sheepish, sottish, stupid, thick). (various references)

Hebrew 

ממולכ�" (booby trraped, mined), מלכו�"ת (booby trap, decoy, gin, net, snare, trap), מטען ממולכ�" (booby trap), פרס לאחרון (booby prize). (various references)

Hungarian

nagy kamasz (boob), mafla (boob, doltish, muff, sheepish), bamba (boob, muzzy, oafish, simple, tomfool). (various references)

Indonesian

orang tolol (ass, dimwit). (various references)

Italian

tonto (deadhead, dull, dullard, dummy, dunce, foolish, Looby, obtuse, stupid), sciocco (addled, daffy, daft, doltish, featherbrain, fool, foolish, goofy, Gotham, inane, Looby, loon, ludicrous, nincompoop, nitwit, noodle, sap, silly, simper, soppy, spoony, stupid). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ブードゥー教 (booby prize, boom, boomerang, voodooism), 残念賞 (consolation or booby prize), 仕掛地雷 (booby trap). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ブー�"ー (booby prize), しかけじらい (booby trap), ざ�"ね�"しょう (consolation or booby prize). (various references)

Manx

lutchynagh (blunderer, blunderhead, blundering, bovine, bungler, bungling, dope, nincompoop, ninny), gant ommidjagh, fer s'jerree (last). (various references)

Pig Latin

oobybay.(various references)

Portuguese

pateta (batty, calf, chuckle-head, chump, clod-poll, coot, cracky, crazy, cuddy, daft, dolt, doodle, driveller, dumb, dupe, fanny, fat-head, fool, gander, gawk, goof, goofy, goose, idiot, jackanapes, jay, jolterhead, josser, juggins, know-nothing, loggerhead, looby, lubber-head, lummox, mooncalf, mutt, mutton-headed, natural, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwitted, noddy, noodle, numskull, oaf, poop, prodigy, pudding-head, rattle-brained, rattle-headed, sawney, silly, simp, simpleton, slob, softhead, softy, spoony, stupid, sucker, tomfool, tom-noddy, zany), estúpido (addle-brained, addled, ass, blockhead, blockish, blunderer, blunderhead, boeotian, bovine, chuckle-head, chump, crass, dense, dim-witted, dolt, dull, dumb, dunce, dunderhead, fat-head, fatuous, featherbrained, fool, foolish, goofy, jolterhead, lubber, lubber-head, lubberly, lumpish, mindless, mutton-head, mutton-headed, numskull, oafish, obtuse, pigheaded, silly, slow, stock, stupe, stupid, thick-headed, thick-skulled, thick-witted, unintelligent, vacuous). (various references)

Romanian

strolea (ninny), prost (ass, bad, badly, beef-witted, blinkard, blockhead, blunt, calf, cheap, clumsy, cock eyed, common, dead, dolt, doltish, donkey, dull, dullard, dumb, dunce, dunderhead, flat, fool, foolish, good for nothing, goof, goon, goose, Goosey, gull, harmful, idiot, idiotish, inhospitable, lousy, lubber-head, miserable, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, nitwitted, noddy, noodle, numskull, numskulled, oaf, oafish, pin head, poor, poorly, silly, simple, simpleton, snipe, soft, soft-headed, sorry, spoony, stupid, thoughtless, unfavorable, unfavourable, wretched, zombie), neghiob (blockhead, clumsy, dolt, dullard, foolish, lubber-head, sheep, sheepish, silly, simpleton, stupid, zany), haplea (blockhead, duffer, simpleton, sucker), haple, gurã-cascã (dupe, gull), gogoman (addle-headed, fool, foolish), gãgãuţã (dupe, gander, innocent, ninny, nitwit, noddy, nut, rook, spoony, sucker), caraghios (antic, blockhead, buffoon, comic, dolt, eccentric, fool, foolish, funny, ridiculous, ridiculously, screaming, singular, strange, zany), cãscãund (gaper). (various references)

Russian 

олух (boob, dunderhead, fathead, fat-head, gander, gowk, jobbernowl, jolterhead, loggerhead, meathead, nitwit, numskull, owl, pudding-head, pumpkin-head, sap-head, schmuck), болван (beetle-head, berk, blockhead, blunderhead, boob, chuckle-head, chump, chunk, dolt, doodle, dope, dumbbell, dumbo, dumbo the flying elephant, dummy, dunce, dunderhead, fat-head, fool, goon, hardhead, jackass, jobbernowl, jolterhead, leather-head, loggerhead, loghead, log-head, lubber-head, lump, lunkhead, mutt, mutton head, mutton-head, nerd, numskull, pudding-head), балбес (nitwit). (various references)

Scottish

plubair (a booby), pleoisg, plodhaisg (a booby). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

bluna, glupan (blockhead, bonehead, boob, clod-poll, coot, dimwit, dope, driveler, driveller, dunce, dunderhead, fathead, fat-head, gander, goof, jerk, loon, lout, lug, lummox, lunkhead, mutton head, nerd, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwit, noddy, pin head, pinhead, pumpkin-head, thickhead, tomfool, twit). (various references)

Spanish

bobo (asinine, boob, crazy, daft, dolt, dumbbell, dunce, fool, foolish, gawk, goof, half wit, half-witted, idiot, idiotic, imbecile, juggins, lemon, loony, loose, lummox, mug, mutt, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, noddy, noodle, numbhead, oafish, sap, saphead, silly, simple simon, soft-headed, soppy, stupid, stupide, sucker, wet, yo-yo), último (bottommost, dernier, final, hindmost, last, latest, latter, rearmost, top, ultimate). (various references)

Swedish

sula (sole), drummel (ape, blunderhead, boob, churl, clod, clodpoll, clown, gawk, hobbledehoy, lout, lubber, lummox, oaf, swab). (various references)

Thai

โรงพยาบาลประสาท (booby hatch), วางทุ่นระเบิ�" (booby-trap). (various references)

Turkish

sümsük kuşu (gannet, solan goose), meme (breast, dug, lobe, mamilla, mamma, mammilla, mammo-, nipple, nose, pap, spray nozzle, teat, udder), göğüs (bosom, breast, bust, chest, mammillary, mammo-, pectoral, thorax), en kötü oyuncu, aptal (bird brained, birdbrain, cretin, cuckoo, daft, Dotty, drag, dumb, dumb bell, dummy, dunce, fathead, fat-head, fat-headed, fatuous, feeble minded, fool, foolish, gaga, goofy, gormless, half wit, half-witted, harebrained, idiot, idiotic, inane, innocent, lummox, oafish, silly, simp, softhead, softy, stupid, thickheaded, tomfool, twerp, twit), alık (chump, dimwitted, dolt, gunsel, nincompoop, scatterbrained, scatty, simpleton, wooden). (various references)

Ukrainian

рибалка (fisherman, sportsman), останній учень, дурень (ass, blunderhead, bone head, bullhead, changeling, chump, clod, clot, dimwit, dolt, donkey, fool, fop, gander, imbecile, jackass, moke, mutton head, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, omadhaun, owl, pinhead, pudding-head, softy, stupe, stupid, tomfool, you imbecile). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người vụng về (bumpkin, butter-fingers, fumbler, lout, lubber, muff, swabber, swobber). (various references)

Welsh

penbwl (blockhead, tadpole), hurtyn (blockhead, stupid). (various references)

Sula abbotti. (various references)

bobo. (various references)

Misspellings

"Booby" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bebory, Bjorbye, Bobi, bobo, bobsy, bomby, Bombyx, bonobo, boobd, boobe, boobie, boogy, booky, booly, boomy, boony, boosy, bootboy, Booy, booya, Botomba, Bouabid, Boube, bouey, Bouvy, boyb, Bubi, Budby, bugby, Bukoba, buzby, Doobie, dooby, Looby, Nouby, obob. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: yobbo.

-1 letter: boob, boyo.

-2 letters: bob, boo, boy, yob.

-3 letters: bo, by, oy, yo.

+1 letter: yobbos.

+2 letters: yobboes.

+3 letters: babyhood, lobbygow.

+4 letters: babyhoods, lobbygows.

+5 letters: bibliology, borborygmi, hobbyhorse.