Boob

Definition: Boob

Boob

Noun

1. An ignorant or foolish person.

2. Either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman.

Verb

1. Commit a faux pas or fault.

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

Date "boob" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1917. (references)

Multilingual Slang

Slang

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

Synonyms: Boob

Convexity

Papilla, nipple, teat,papilla, nipple, teat, tit, titty, boob, knocker, pap, breast, dug, mammilla.

Crosswords: Boob

Manx (cry of the bittern, effeminate male child, sissy).

Yeah, uhrattlesnake took a chunk outta us a few miles backme and my wife are pretty sick - could be dyin,' you never can tell about these things, sohow's about you ungluein' your fat ass from that boob tube and gettin' us some snakebite juice (Natural Born Killers; writing credit: David Veloz)

Then the waiter spilled water down my back, and my boob popped out. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

Chew a boob homo (Titus; writing credit: Karl-Heinz Käfer)

Mom, you don't need a boob job, look I don't have that (The Osbournes; writing credit: Liliana Abud; Jaime García Estrada)

This past week I've seen Miranda's boobs and Charlotte's boob. Why don't you show me your boobs too and the circle is full (Sex and the City; writing credit: Mark Leiren-Young)

The Fighting Boob (1926)

A Briny Boob (1926)

The Poor Boob (1919)

Beauty and the Boob (1919)

A Boob for Luck (1917)

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Books

• Boob Jubilee: The Mad Cultural Politics of the New Economy: Salvos from the Baffler (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Big Boob Tease (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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The big boob. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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

Expressions using "boob": boob trap ♦ boob tube. Additional references.

Albanian

rrotë (dope, moron, rack, rag-wheel, spool, wheel), gji (bay, bight, bosom, bowels, breast, chest, entrails, gulf, inlet, milk, womb), gabim (balk, baulk, delinquency, delusion, error, fallacy, false step, fault, flub, frailty, gaffe, lapse, Lapsus, misdoing, Miss, misstep, mistake, slip, slip up, trip). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غلطة شنيعة, ‏المغفل (booby, 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, booby, daft, idiot, natural). (various references)

Bulgarian 

голяма грешка (atrocity), гаф (bungle, faux pas, floater, gaff, gaffe, infelicity, slip, snafu), глупак (bird brained, blinker, boeotian, bonehead, booby, 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), правя гаф (drop a brick, goof). (various references)

Czech

bota (boot, gaffe, goof, mistake, shoe), trdlo (dodo, jolterhead), pitomost (balls, idiocy, stuff, stupidity), koza (goat, nanny goat). (various references)

French

téton, nichon, lolo, imbécile, gaffe (boat hook). (various references)

German

brust (bosom, breast, chest, teat), tolpatsch (clodhopper, clumsy creature, clumsy fellow, cub, hobbledehoy), titte (knocker), schnitzer (blooper, blunder, bobble, boner, booboo, carver, goof, howler, slip up, solecism), patzer (slip, slip up), patzen (fumble, slip up), panne (breakdown, break-down, flat tire, goof, hitch, mishap, slip-up, trouble), mist bauen (blunder), einen schnitzer machen (blunder), dussel (dope, goof, goon, lemon, muddler, mutt, mutts, ninny, silly, sucker, twerp, twit). (various references)

Greek 

βυζιά (knockers 1, knockers 2). (various references)

Hebrew 

ש�'יא�" �'ס�", טמבל (blockhead, bone head, drip, dunce, moron). (various references)

Hungarian

fajankó (booby, bumpkin, cad, duffer, dummy, dunce, goof, goofy, goose, hawbuck, hick, juggins, lob, loon, lout, lummox, lunkhead, numb-skull, numskull, oaf, pumpkin-head, simple sammy), nagy kamasz (booby), mafla (booby, doltish, muff, sheepish), bamba (booby, muzzy, oafish, simple, tomfool). (various references)

Italian

tetta. (various references)

Manx

thoot (bumpkin, cry baby, idiot, lubber, namby-pamby, oaf, simpleton), sheeint (breast, dug, nipple, pap, teat, teat of animal), sheeiney (breast, dug, mamilla, nipple, pap, teat). (various references)

Pig Latin

oobbay.(various references)

Portuguese

besteira (barney), seio (antrum, bosom, breast, chest, mamma, momma, sinus, teat, womb). (various references)

Russian 

олух (booby, 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, booby, 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), простак (coot, gaby, goose, greener, gull, innocent, juggins, lummox, man of Gotham, mug, muggins, noddy, noodle, patsy, sap, simp, simpleton, tomnoddy, wise man of Gotham). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tikvan (blockhead, bonehead, chuckle-head, clod-poll, loggerhead, loghead, numskull, oaf, pudding-head, sap-head), sisa (breast, knocker, mamma, teat), glupan (blockhead, bonehead, booby, 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, booby, 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), teta (dug, pap, teat), gran error. (various references)

Swedish

blunder (bloomer, blunder, gaffe), tabbe (bloomer, Boner, clinker, cock up, faux pas, gaffe, goof, howler, muff, slip), kvinnobröst (mamma), drummel (ape, blunderhead, booby, churl, clod, clodpoll, clown, gawk, hobbledehoy, lout, lubber, lummox, oaf, swab), dabba sig (blunder, make a blunder). (various references)

Thai

หน้าอกผู้หญิง. (various references)

Turkish

dangalak (bonehead, bone-headed, bumpkin, crass, half-witted), aptallık yapmak, aptalca hata (Boo-boo, bull), ahmak (addled, ass, blockhead, bumpkin, cabbagehead, chucklehead, chumpish, clot, country bumpkin, crass, cretin, deadly dull, dimwitted, dolt, doltish, dreary, dullish, dumb bell, dunderhead, dunderheaded, fathead, fool, foolish, gander, gawk, gawky, goat, goof, goose, greenhorn, Gubbins, half wit, half-witted, hayseed, idiot, jackass, jerk, josser, kookaburra, light in the head, loon, lummox, lump, muggins, mutt, mutton head, noddy, numskull, prune, pudding-head, sap, saphead, sappy, schlepper, simp, soft, stupid, twerp). (various references)

Ukrainian

телепень (addle-head, ass, blockhead, chuckle-head, chump, clod, cuckoo, dunderhead, fathead, gawk, oaf, pudding-head, pumpkin-head), йолоп (banana-head, blunderbuss, calf, caravan, chuckle-head, clod, clot, dimwit, fathead, gawk, loggerhead, mutt, nincompoop, nitwit, noodle, numskull, poop, saphead, zany). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người khờ dại (babe, blunderhead, fool, gaby, goosey, greenhorn, half-wit, imbecile, juggins, nincompoop, rattle-brain, scapegrace, sheep's-head, silly, spooney, spoony). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "boob": boobed, boobing, boobish, booboisie, booboisies, booboo, booboos, boobs, booby. (additional references)

Words ending with "boob": haboob. (additional references)

Words containing "boob": haboobs. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: bob, boo.

-2 letters: bo.

+1 letter: baboo, boobs, booby, yobbo.

+2 letters: babool, baboon, baboos, bamboo, bonbon, boobed, booboo, boubou, haboob, hobnob, yobbos.

+3 letters: babools, baboons, bamboos, beblood, bonbons, boobing, boobish, booboos, boombox, boshbok, boubous, bourbon, bugaboo, haboobs, hobnobs, jibboom, rubaboo, yobboes.

+4 letters: babyhood, bankbook, bebloods, bluebook, bobolink, bombload, bontebok, bookable, bootable, boschbok, boshboks, bourbons, boxboard, bugaboos, jibbooms, lobbygow, rubaboos, rubbaboo.