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booby | booly |

As nouns the difference between booby and booly

is that booby is a stupid person or booby can be (slang) a woman’s breast while booly is (obsolete) a company of irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk, like the tartars.

As a verb booby

is (rare|intransitive) to behave stupidly; to act like a booby.

booby

English

(wikipedia booby) (Sulidae)

Etymology 1

17th Century. (etyl) bobo, from (etyl) .

Noun

(boobies)
  • A stupid person.
  • (by extension) 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...
    Synonyms
    * (stupid person) * (large tropical seabird) sulid
    Derived terms
    * 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, * booby trap

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (rare) 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;
  • 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

    Etymology 2

    From the earlier form bubby .

    Noun

    (boobies)
  • (slang) a woman’s breast
  • * 1934 (Henry Miller),
    • At ten o’clock she was lying on the divan with her boobies in her hands.

    Derived terms

    * boob

    Anagrams

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    booly

    English

    Alternative forms

    * boley * bolye * bouillie

    Noun

    (boolies)
  • (obsolete) A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk, like the Tartars.
  • (obsolete) A place in the mountain pastures enclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers.
    • (Spenser)
    (Webster 1913)