Booby

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A stupid fellow; a dull or foolish person; a lubber.
  • noun. The pupil at the foot of a class; the dunce of the class or of the school.
  • noun. In progressive euchre, the player who has failed most conspicuously in the game.
  • noun. The name of various species of brown and white gannets, birds of the family Sulidœ, genus Sula.
  • noun. In New England, a hack on runners; a sleigh kept for hire.
  • Of or pertaining to a booby or boobies; foolish; stupid.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A dunce; a stupid fellow.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A swimming bird (Sula fiber or Sula sula) related to the common gannet, and found in the West Indies, nesting on the bare rocks. It is so called on account of its apparent stupidity -- unafraid of men, it allows itself to be caught by a simple and undisguised approach. The name is also sometimes applied to other species of gannets; as, Sula piscator, the red-footed booby; and Sula nebouxii, the blue-footed booby.
  • noun. A species of penguin of the antarctic seas.
  • noun. an insane asylum.
  • noun. a carriage body put upon sleigh runners.
  • noun. a clumsy covered carriage or seat, used in the eastern part of England.
  • noun. an award for the poorest performance in a competition; hence, metaphorically, the recognition of a strikingly inferior or incompetent performance.
  • noun. any concealed device causing surprise or injury when a usually harmless object is touched; -- in military operations, typically containing an explosive charge.
  • adjective. Having the characteristics of a booby; stupid.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. a woman’s breast
  • noun. A stupid person.
  • noun. Any of various large tropical seabirds from the genera Sula and Papasula in the gannet family Sulidae, traditionally considered to be stupid.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. small tropical gannet having a bright bill or bright feet or both
  • noun. an ignorant or foolish person
  • Word Usage
    "While a lucky few on Cross's Christmas list score a shiny, new VHS player, the bulk of them receive the ultimate in booby prizes: a network-branded bath towel."
    Hypernym
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    gannet  simple  simpleton  
    Hyponym
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    Rhyme
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    Newby  Ruby  Scooby  looby  ruby  
    Same Context
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    Synonym
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    Sulid  also-ran  asshole  bag  blockhead