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- booby
- a woman’s breast
At ten o’clock she was lying on the divan with her boobies in her hands. — Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, 1934.
- Any of various large tropical seabirds from the genera Sula and Papasula in the gannet family Sulidae, traditionally considered to be stupid
At which time, ſome Boobyes, weary of flight, made our Ship their pearch, an animall ſo ſimple as ſuffers any to take her without feare, as if a ſtupid ſenſe made her careleſſe of danger.
- {n} a dull empty fellow, dunce, large bird
- {i} stupid person
- A stupid person
- A dunce; a stupid fellow
- dumbbell: an ignorant or foolish person
- Any of various tropical seabirds from the genera Sula and Papasula, resembling gannets; rests at night in the rigging of sailing ships from where it is easy to catch
- A species of penguin of the antarctic seas
- piscator, the red-footed booby
- boobies a silly or stupid person. Any of six or seven species of large tropical seabirds (family Sulidae), named for their presumed lack of intelligence. Two common species are wide-ranging in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans; another is found in the Pacific from southern California to northern Peru and on the Galápagos Islands. The booby has a long bill, cigar-shaped body, and long, narrow, angular wings. It flies high above the ocean looking for schools of fish and squid, which it snatches in a vertical dive. Boobies vary in length from 25 to 35 in. (65-85 cm). They nest in colonies but are territorial
- a woman's breast
- an ignorant or foolish person
- The name is also sometimes applied to other species of gannets; as, S
- Having the characteristics of a booby; stupid
- sula related to the common gannet, and found in the West Indies, nesting on the bare rocks
- small tropical gannet having a bright bill or bright feet or both
- It is so called on account of its apparent stupidity
- A swimming bird Sula fiber or S