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booby | boomy |

As a noun booby

is a stupid person.

As a verb booby

is to behave stupidly; to act like a booby.

As an adjective boomy is

characterized by heavy bass sounds.

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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    boomy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Characterized by heavy bass sounds.
  • * 1999 , Jon Chappell, The Recording Guitarist: A Guide for Home and Studio , page 54,
    • If you're miking a boomy acoustic, the proximity effect can work against you, but having it on a thin-sounding arch-top can work for you.
  • * 2007 , Gary Gottlieb, Shaping Sound in the Studio and Beyond: Audio Aesthetics and Technology , page 250,
    • As an airliner approaches you from a long way off, the sound is first heard as rumble, and, as it get closer and then directly overhead, the sound becomes increasingly boomier .
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=February 26, author=Allan Kozinn, title=In Precise Movements, a Russian Sense of Drama, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=For the third movement Mr. Safronov had Schubert’s piano sketch as a guide, but his big, boomy orchestration, with a gentle pastoral trio at its core, sounded jarring after the first two movements.}}
  • Of or pertaining to a financial boom, resources boom, baby boom, etc.
  • * Rudyard Kipling, quoted in 1992 , John William Reps, The Making of Urban America: A History of City Planning in the United States , page 412,
    • Tacoma was literally staggering under a boom of the boomiest . I do not quite remember what her natural resources were supposed to be,.
  • * 1903 , Mining Magazine: An International Monthly Review of Current Progress in Mining and Metallurgy , Volume 7, page 132,
    • A larger amount of capital is seeking investment than in the boomiest of boom times, yet there is no boom now.
  • * 1979 , Business Week , Issues 2592-2600, page 72,
    • Even in boomier times, the flexibility that leasing provides has become increasingly important to companies.